Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

Michael Eric Dyson

• Toxic
• Masculinity

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The service of bringing light to a troubled world must never end.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • World
  • Light
  • Service

• ...those who think their God ... has nowhere so plainly shown himself as in his works, will seek in the face and lineaments of Nature that consoling smile which every lonely soul so miserably craves ... betake thee to the fields; betake thee to the woods ... thou shalt be comforted ... Lay thy tired head on Nature's breast ... always there is at hand the Infinite and the Eternal: about thee, above thee ...

  

  Arnold Haultain
  • God
  • Nature
  • Soul

• International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.

  

  Danny Baker
  • Player
  • Soccer
  • Friendly

• One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • People
  • Star
  • Challenges

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, "This feels off-kilter for this particular person."

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Feels

• Seriously, I thought it would be one of those things that would just come and go.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Things

• The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

  

  William Morris
  • Reality
  • Past
  • Helping

• The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Creature
  • Altars

• My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

  

  Georges Bataille
  • House
  • Church
  • Satisfaction

• Our firefighters, they show up every day to fight fires. If, God forbid, there's a situation where they have to fight cancer, they shouldn't have to fight bureaucrats to get the care they deserve.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • God
  • Cancer
  • Firefighters

• Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Attractive
  • Toxic

• If you just say that, look at all the good stuff and you don't acknowledge the toxic stuff, you're wrong. If you're only looking at toxic stuff and don't recognize there's going to be some good stuff if you're for infrastructure or whatever, you're wrong.

  

  Van Jones
  • Good
  • Looks
  • Stuff

• My mother passed away, my marriage ended, and I moved. Those are some pretty big things to let go of. But I find that if you hold on to something too tightly, you strangle it and yourself. If you don't let go, and let things go through you, it's toxic - physically.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Mother
  • Moved
  • Toxic

• I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

  

  Catherine Opie
  • Culture
  • Identity
  • Construction

• Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Toxic
  • Masculinity