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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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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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
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Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.
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I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.
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Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that positive boost.
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The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.
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When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.
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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.
