Top 18 Danny Glover Quotes

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

I’m a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

I never thought about being an actor.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.

I’m not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

When you‘ve moved past a point where you’re just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you’ve seen, what you choose to embrace.

Some of these things I saw in foreign films – African films, Cuban films – long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you’re successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don’t get to that point.

I’ve been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNICEF and the UNICEF family for more than twelve years.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism – about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children‘s mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Well I don’t know because I don’t have a real relationship with the industry.

I’ve always been able to make choices that don’t embarrass me.

It’s also important for those who promote those issues within the white community – the somewhat privileged community – to talk about issues affecting people of color.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.