I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.' — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Blackness also has positive dimensions, those that bear the political meanings of African American people, among other blacks, who have struggled for… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Of course, I could never suggest that only poor people are misogynistic; too many rich folk are just as hateful of women… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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