--- title: "12 Jackson Quotes By Michael Eric Dyson" description: "12 Jackson quotes by Michael Eric Dyson. Plus more from Michael Eric Dyson and more Jackson sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/michael-eric-dyson-1424_ability_michael-joseph-jackson-s-genius-was-the_434387.png" --- > [Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/michael-joseph-jackson-s-genius-was-the-ability-to-be-the-raw-article/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/613/michael-eric-dyson-1424_ability_michael-joseph-jackson-s-genius-was-the_434387.png) > [The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/the-parallels-between-elvis-and-michael-jackson-as-incredible-artists/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36b/michael-eric-dyson-1424_art_the-parallels-between-elvis-and-michael_1659981.png) > [Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/michael-jackson-fundamentally-altered-the-terms-of-the-debate-about-2/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fd/michael-eric-dyson-1424_african-american_michael-jackson-fundamentally-altered-th_2992614.png) > [Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/michael-jackson-carried-urban-america-and-eventually-american-society/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a0/michael-eric-dyson-1424_adult_michael-jackson-carried-urban-america-an_661085.png) > [I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-think-that-michael-jackson-just-as-an-entertainer-as-a-figure-who/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/645/michael-eric-dyson-1424_80s_i-think-that-michael-jackson-just-as-an_1568960.jpg) > [I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-think-there-s-no-question-that-michael-jackson-was-the-foremost/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/michael-eric-dyson-1424_african-american_i-think-there-s-no-question-that-michael_2914685.png) > [If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/if-barack-obama-now-or-some-black-person-in-the-future-should-become/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30b/michael-eric-dyson-1424_al_if-barack-obama-now-or-some-black-person_1865101.png) > [I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-think-the-reality-is-michael-jackson-s-humanity-is-so-deep-the/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cf/michael-eric-dyson-1424_america_i-think-the-reality-is-michael-jackson-s_938781.png) > [Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/michael-jackson-fundamentally-altered-the-terms-of-the-debate-about/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/michael-eric-dyson-1424_about_michael-jackson-fundamentally-altered-th_1037765.png) > [ I think that he \[Michael Jackson\] did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-think-that-he-michael-jackson-did-derive-an-ultimate-sense-of-joy/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc2/michael-eric-dyson-1424_art_i-think-that-he-michael-jackson-did-deri_2699229.png) > [ Michael \[Jackson\] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/michael-jackson-reconstructed-his-face-and-deconstructed-the-african/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/michael-eric-dyson-1424_agony_michael-jackson-reconstructed-his-face-a_2394872.png) > [ When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael \[Jackson\]'s story write large. Born as an elderly… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/when-you-saw-the-movie-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-that-was/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cc/michael-eric-dyson-1424_benjamin-button_when-you-saw-the-movie-the-curious-case_2223405.png) ## Other authors on Jackson ## More by Michael Eric Dyson > [Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/jeremiah-wright-is-one-of-the-greatest-prophetic-preachers-that-black/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [ What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for \[Donald\] Trump, and do… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/what-are-you-for-it-may-be-to-a-degree-consoling-that-white-brothers/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-went-to-school-four-years-later-than-most-people-because-i-was-a/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/it-is-true-that-race-is-a-social-fiction-a-myth-perpetuated-by-a/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-ve-written-a-lot-of-other-books-and-this-book-tears-we-cannot-stop/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/and-there-is-a-paradox-that-many-of-you-refuse-to-see-to-get-to-a/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [ Elvis \[Presley\] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/elvis-presley-had-a-stepstool-if-you-will-to-success-because-he-came/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-believe-in-a-god-of-a-second-chance-and-a-god-of-love-and-mercy/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/hurricane-katrina-overwhelmed-levees-and-exploded-the-conventional/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-was-very-struck-when-min-farrakhan-said-if-jesus-and-muhammad-were/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [“O! save us, we pray thee, thou God of Heaven and of earth, from the devouring hands of the white Christians!!! . . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/o-save-us-we-pray-thee-thou-god-of-heaven-and-of-earth-from-the/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/we-can-t-exempt-ourselves-from-the-same-moral-calculus-that-we-are/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/new-orleans-invented-the-brown-paper-bag-party-usually-at-a-gathering/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [“Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/whiteness-is-an-advantage-and-privilege-because-you-have-made-it-so/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-m-just-challenging-white-supremacy-at-its-intellectual-heart-every/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jackson/michael-eric-dyson/#itemlist", "name": "12 Jackson Quotes By Michael Eric Dyson", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. 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Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Eric Dyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/michael-jackson-fundamentally-altered-the-terms-of-the-debate-about/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/michael-eric-dyson-1424_about_michael-jackson-fundamentally-altered-th_1037765.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/michael-eric-dyson-1424_about_michael-jackson-fundamentally-altered-th_1037765.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/michael-eric-dyson-1424_about_michael-jackson-fundamentally-altered-th_1037765.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. 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His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Eric Dyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/michael-jackson-reconstructed-his-face-and-deconstructed-the-african/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/michael-eric-dyson-1424_agony_michael-jackson-reconstructed-his-face-a_2394872.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/michael-eric-dyson-1424_agony_michael-jackson-reconstructed-his-face-a_2394872.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/michael-eric-dyson-1424_agony_michael-jackson-reconstructed-his-face-a_2394872.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European…” — Michael Eric Dyson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When you saw the movie \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,\" that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. 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