Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

We should all be about the business of finding, discussing and furthering solutions to our problems. But none of that can be done without at first speaking honestly about the problems we confront, with whoever in our ranks will listen and respond.

Michael Eric Dyson

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• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Problem
  • Serious
  • Fact

• Without a dog, I would have tassels on my throw pillows instead of little stubs of yarn that look like small worms. The pillows seem to function just fine without the tassels, so perhaps it isn't a problem.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Small
  • Problem
  • Dog

• The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Problem
  • Rap
  • Nobody

• You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Real
  • Friends

• I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Problem

• In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Opinion

• The most vexing problem Israel faces is its relations with its neighbors. From the inception of the state until today, Israelis have felt besieged, surrounded by enemies who want to make them disappear.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Today
  • Want
  • Problem

• The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • War
  • Problem
  • Fighting

• I am uncomfortable talking about the things that I write. It seems unseemly to me. I have no problem at all when I see anybody else talking about the same project, but I feel my work should speak for itself.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Same

• I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Problem
  • For Her

• The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Society

• You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Future
  • Giving
  • Problem

• The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Art
  • History
  • Problem

• There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Problem

• America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

  

  Alveda King
  • America
  • Politics
  • Leader

• Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Work
  • Community
  • Problem

• The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Problem
  • Able
  • Investment

• The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.

  

  Cate Shortland
  • Film
  • Challenges
  • Honestly

• I belong nowhere and to no one.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Belong
  • Nowhere

• We should all be about the business of finding, discussing and furthering solutions to our problems. But none of that can be done without at first speaking honestly about the problems we confront, with whoever in our ranks will listen and respond.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Problem
  • Solutions
  • Honestly