Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

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• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

  

  Gary Webb
  • Life
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Never

• At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Speak
  • Original
  • Cognitive

• I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Never

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • History
  • Lies

• 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Real
  • Value
  • Personality

• My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Sister

• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Beauty
  • Garden

• The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Way
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt that creatively I didn't do justice to Richard Gere's character. So in the musical, we have some great new moments for Richard's character.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Great
  • Character
  • Pretty

• I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins - botulinum and salmonella - and the chemical poison cyanide.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Plans
  • Top
  • Poison

• I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.

  

  Chuck Fleischmann
  • Believe
  • Education
  • Moving

• I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.

  

  Prince Andrew

• Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Technology
  • Exercise
  • Creativity

• When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Music
  • Real
  • Identity

• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.

  

  Johnny Carson
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Attention

• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

  

  Steve Martin
  • Natural
  • Introduction
  • Shyness

• Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Identity
  • Negative