But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There is not a history of black intellectuals being allied with dominant forces to hold white people in social and cultural subordination… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how information is delivered has changed tremendously. The… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity… — 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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