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 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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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 didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.
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It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.
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A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Divisa inter exercitum ducesque munia: militibus cupidinem pugnandi convenire, duces providendo, consultando, cunctatione saepius quam temeritate prodesse. ut pro virili portione armis ac manu victoriam iuverit, ratione et consilio, propriis ducis artibus, profuturum.
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The man who sanctifies his wife understands that this is his divinely ordained responsibility... Is my wife more like Christ because she is married to me? Or is she like Christ in spite of me? Has she shrunk from His likeness because of me? Do I sanctify her or hold her back? Is she a better woman because she is married to me?
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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.
