Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
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Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a house and basically send you out into the world to bring back $200,000 in the next twenty years. The first $100,000 is principal, and the second is interest.
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If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.
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The written word is everything.
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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
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The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring.
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I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
