--- title: "14 Poor Quotes By Michael Eric Dyson" description: "14 Poor quotes by Michael Eric Dyson. Plus more from Michael Eric Dyson and more Poor sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/michael-eric-dyson-1424_poor_whiteness-has-privilege-and-power-connec_2619602.png" --- > [“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/whiteness-has-privilege-and-power-connected-to-it-no-matter-how-poor/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/michael-eric-dyson-1424_poor_whiteness-has-privilege-and-power-connec_2619602.png) > [It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/it-is-bad-enough-to-be-white-and-poor-it-is-worse-still-to-be-black/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/michael-eric-dyson-1424_bad_it-is-bad-enough-to-be-white-and-poor-it_2146072.png) > [I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-have-no-interest-in-romanticizing-poor-black-people-having-been-one/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a64/michael-eric-dyson-1424_beloved_i-have-no-interest-in-romanticizing-poor_2967872.png) > [Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f40/michael-eric-dyson-1424_america_hurricane-katrina-overwhelmed-levees-and_72636.png) > [My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/my-empathy-for-poor-people-comes-from-having-been-one-of-them-for-so/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/michael-eric-dyson-1424_complexes_my-empathy-for-poor-people-comes-from-ha_1196666.png) > [..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/and-the-same-rapper-who-revels-in-a-woman-s-finely-proportioned/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6a/michael-eric-dyson-1424_against-racism_and-the-same-rapper-who-revels-in-a-woma_1928715.png) > [I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-think-that-not-only-do-saints-make-poor-role-models-they-are/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9f/michael-eric-dyson-1424_death_i-think-that-not-only-do-saints-make-poo_1727131.png) > [There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/there-are-huge-divorces-and-divides-and-chasms-in-black-america/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/michael-eric-dyson-1424_about_there-are-huge-divorces-and-divides-and_119420.png) > [Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/bill-cosby-is-a-famous-black-guy-who-has-a-bully-pulpit-the-size-of/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce8/michael-eric-dyson-1424_balanced_bill-cosby-is-a-famous-black-guy-who-has_434615.png) > [I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-went-to-see-chris-rock-on-saturday-night-here-in-atlanta-and-he/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/michael-eric-dyson-1424_brutal_i-went-to-see-chris-rock-on-saturday-nig_2378941.jpg) > [Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/class-certainly-loomed-large-in-katrina-s-aftermath-blacks-of-means/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccf/michael-eric-dyson-1424_aftermath_class-certainly-loomed-large-in-katrina_1625425.png) > [Of course, I could never suggest that only poor people are misogynistic; too many rich folk are just as hateful of women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/of-course-i-could-never-suggest-that-only-poor-people-are/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/882/michael-eric-dyson-1424_focus_of-course-i-could-never-suggest-that-onl_1220446.jpg) > [But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/but-for-poor-black-people-and-working-class-black-people-it-is-a-much/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45f/michael-eric-dyson-1424_access_but-for-poor-black-people-and-working-cl_1877179.png) > [If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/if-your-experiences-suggest-to-you-that-poor-black-folk-are-lazy-then/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/michael-eric-dyson-1424_being-true_if-your-experiences-suggest-to-you-that_666879.png) ## Other authors on Poor ## 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/poor/michael-eric-dyson/#itemlist", "name": "14 Poor Quotes By Michael Eric Dyson", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Eric Dyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/whiteness-has-privilege-and-power-connected-to-it-no-matter-how-poor/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/michael-eric-dyson-1424_poor_whiteness-has-privilege-and-power-connec_2619602.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/michael-eric-dyson-1424_poor_whiteness-has-privilege-and-power-connec_2619602.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/michael-eric-dyson-1424_poor_whiteness-has-privilege-and-power-connec_2619602.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.” — Michael Eric Dyson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. 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And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Eric Dyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/there-are-huge-divorces-and-divides-and-chasms-in-black-america/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/michael-eric-dyson-1424_about_there-are-huge-divorces-and-divides-and_119420.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/michael-eric-dyson-1424_about_there-are-huge-divorces-and-divides-and_119420.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/michael-eric-dyson-1424_about_there-are-huge-divorces-and-divides-and_119420.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots…” — Michael Eric Dyson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. 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