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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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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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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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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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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My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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Test cricket is for batsmen, not bowlers. Bowlers are like slaves,' Kapil Dev.
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There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
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The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.
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Are you in the car that's almost caused three accidents on North Vance?" Hannah asked. "Because I'm following you with my lights flashing, and whoever's driving isn't pulling over." "Let him go," Claire said. "Trust me. You aren't going to get him to stop." "Oh, God. It's Myrnin, isn't it?" "Tell that police lady to stop chasing me," Myrnin said, annoyed, from the front seat. "Really, I'm not THAT bad at this.
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It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and females are discretely different from persons who respond to natural stimuli. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds.
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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.
