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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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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Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.
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A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
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I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
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It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem once in a while. When we open wide our minds and fix our gaze on the universe, we fix our gaze on our own life.
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In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.
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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.
