Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Beloved, to be black in America is to live in terror. That terror is fast. It is glimpsed in cops giving chase… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King, Jr., is the most quoted black man on the planet. His words are like scripture to you and, yes,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The emphasis on personal responsibility is something we've had in black America from the get-go. Every major leader and intellectual worth her… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
“And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won’t make a difference, we… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
“O! save us, we pray thee, thou God of Heaven and of earth, from the devouring hands of the white Christians!!! . . .… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
“Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share
