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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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.
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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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I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.
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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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Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together.
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I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard.
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Again and again since 9/11, terror attacks in the West have been carried out by second-generation Muslims who are citizens of the very country they are attacking.
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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.
