Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.
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It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
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I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
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I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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I have never seen so many celebrities and their pets in one place, giving such support to the cause of protecting animal rights. Protecting their rights should always be our first priority.
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What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
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I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.
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My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.
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Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
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maybe god is a child ‘s hand)very carefully bring -ing to you and to me(and quite with out crushing)the papery weightless diminutive world with a hole in it out of which demons with wings would be streaming if something had(maybe they couldn’t agree)not happened(and floating- ly int o
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Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
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The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
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Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.
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There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony.
