I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity. — 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
Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you,… — 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
I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be… — 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
You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that what Donald Trump is doing, the way in which racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim belief and the like are being expressed… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those… — 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
We are not all the same; we don't think alike; and we have the right to openly express those differences in ways… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three… — 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
I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that he [Michael Jackson] did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the… — 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
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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