--- title: "16 Trump Quotes By Michael Eric Dyson" description: "16 Trump quotes by Michael Eric Dyson. Plus more from Michael Eric Dyson and more Trump sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/michael-eric-dyson-1424_donald-trump_that-is-because-donald-trump-is-the-lite_763584.png" --- > [“That is because Donald Trump is the literal face of white innocence without consciousness, white privilege without apology. Each”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/that-is-because-donald-trump-is-the-literal-face-of-white-innocence/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/michael-eric-dyson-1424_donald-trump_that-is-because-donald-trump-is-the-lite_763584.png) > [Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/barack-obama-has-come-closer-than-any-figure-in-recent-history-to/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/713/michael-eric-dyson-1424_any_barack-obama-has-come-closer-than-any-fi_1547365.png) > [“Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/obama-had-always-to-field-demands-from-some-blacks-to-be-blacker-and/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63c/michael-eric-dyson-1424_politics_obama-had-always-to-field-demands-from-s_1114442.png) > [I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-ve-been-a-social-gospel-er-and-a-person-who-sees-politics-as-a/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/michael-eric-dyson-1424_christianity_i-ve-been-a-social-gospel-er-and-a-perso_2797935.png) > [“The election of President Trump was all about whiteness. How whiteness is ingeniously adaptable to a gross variety of circumstances. How it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/the-election-of-president-trump-was-all-about-whiteness-how-whiteness/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/michael-eric-dyson-1424_president-trump_the-election-of-president-trump-was-all_515667.png) > [ What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for \[Donald\] Trump,… ](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/michael-eric-dyson-1424_animus_what-are-you-for-it-may-be-to-a-degree-c_14940.png) > [Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/donald-trump-amplifies-the-worst-instincts-and-his-nationalism-is/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/michael-eric-dyson-1424_amplify_donald-trump-amplifies-the-worst-instinc_2449466.png) > [“Barack Obama so spooked the bigoted whites of this country that we are now faced with a racist explicitness that we haven’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/barack-obama-so-spooked-the-bigoted-whites-of-this-country-that-we/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/457/michael-eric-dyson-1424_civil-rights_barack-obama-so-spooked-the-bigoted-whit_1799621.png) > [Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/obama-sees-the-world-in-two-ways-from-the-black-perspective-and-from/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/352/michael-eric-dyson-1424_able_obama-sees-the-world-in-two-ways-from-th_2164713.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) > [George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/george-bush-ran-a-campaign-where-he-bragged-about-being-an-anti/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b4/michael-eric-dyson-1424_about_george-bush-ran-a-campaign-where-he-brag_2514566.jpg) > [“Trump is missing the point when he says that Kaepernick should “find a country that works better for him.” Instead, Kaepernick believes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/trump-is-missing-the-point-when-he-says-that-kaepernick-should-find-a/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9be/michael-eric-dyson-1424_trump_trump-is-missing-the-point-when-he-says_2541203.jpg) > [“President Donald Trump chose “Make America Great Again” as his 2016 campaign slogan. It sounded the call to white America to return…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/president-donald-trump-chose-make-america-great-again-as-his-2016/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ec/michael-eric-dyson-1424_better-day_president-donald-trump-chose-make-americ_2678190.png) > [I think that what Donald Trump is doing, the way in which racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim belief and the like are being expressed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-think-that-what-donald-trump-is-doing-the-way-in-which-racism/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4be/michael-eric-dyson-1424_aggressive_i-think-that-what-donald-trump-is-doing_1614834.jpg) > [I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-m-not-trying-to-say-stop-donald-trump-from-being-elected-as-his/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/michael-eric-dyson-1424_american-citizen_i-m-not-trying-to-say-stop-donald-trump_1968165.png) > [What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/what-i-m-talking-about-is-both-political-and-then-also-extra/) [Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/michael-eric-dyson-1424_belief_what-i-m-talking-about-is-both-political_1182624.jpg) ## Other authors on Trump ## 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/trump/michael-eric-dyson/#itemlist", "name": "16 Trump Quotes By Michael Eric Dyson", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“That is because Donald Trump is the literal face of white innocence without consciousness, white privilege without apology. 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