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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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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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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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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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
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An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.
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We are looking with interest at that proposal. It is a proposal in which enrichment would be done outside, in Russia, but at the moment no agreement has been reached between Russia and Iran.
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).
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I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.
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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest.
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I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
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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.
