Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
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I'm a carb-y person. I love pastries and whatnot.
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We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.
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Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.
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People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.
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Check my records: you'll find I've never caused a bad injury to a player.
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I live for what I haven't done.
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My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.
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My best beauty secret ever is to drink a lot of water!
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If I could figure out a way to earn a living while traveling for the rest of my life, well, I think that'd be a dream come true.
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I really don't go to any parties.
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You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.
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I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
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He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
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After the oil spill, I had this strong feeling that if I ever were to be blessed in having children, I never wanted my kids to see me pumping gas at a gas station. I think it's our responsibility to make the changes that we need to take regardless of convenience.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God.
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For me, I'm just too bad at remembering the details of lengths of parts of songs, so if we had backing tracks, it would be a recipe for disaster.
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True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.
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To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.
