Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.

Michael Eric Dyson

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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

Owen Paterson
- Up
- She
- Pretty
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

Madhur Bhandarkar
- Law
- Fashion
- Influence
For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

Caitlyn Jenner
- Woman
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

Valerie Plame
- You
- Stress
- Adapt
I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.

Larry Wilcox
- Want
- Learned
- Lesson
In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

Mahershala Ali
- Time
- Good
- Different