Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
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Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
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I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.
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I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. … I often have the feeling - and it does show up in my books - that this is all just a stage.
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Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.
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Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a tight circle around the black community to define the limits of my moral concern. But that narrative tends to get imposed on you, if you're an African-American activist.
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When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'
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I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.
