Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I need instant gratification.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.
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When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.
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Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
