Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
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Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
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Anything other than a gold medal will be disappointing.
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Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.
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The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
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I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
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What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.
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I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.
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When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?
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Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus on the risks.
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I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said 'I'll just print another ten'.
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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
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An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.
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I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.
