Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

Michael Eric Dyson

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• There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Pride
  • Humility

• Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Happy
  • Corruption
  • Be Happy

• One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Why
  • Weird
  • Survival

• I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Different
  • Want
  • Party

• When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Best
  • Competition
  • Equal

• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Thought
  • Anger

• 1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.

  

  Kage Baker
  • World
  • Movie
  • Lost

• Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Fun
  • Awesome

• I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Important
  • Book

• I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.

  

  Elle King
  • Up
  • Dirty

• A record like 'Price of Fame' - when you do get this success, how do you treat it, or how do you let it treat you? How does it affect your family and friends and the people around you? ... And I don't mind telling people what I've been through when it comes to the pressure I put on myself of wanting to be the best and the greatest.

  

  Justin Scott
  • People
  • Mind
  • Family

• The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

  

  Elizabeth I
  • Heart
  • King

• If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Night

• The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Jesus
  • Honor
  • Name

• I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Small
  • Attitude

• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Honor
  • Faces
  • Failing