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title: "28 White Quotes By Michael Eric Dyson"
description: "28 White quotes by Michael Eric Dyson. Plus more from Michael Eric Dyson and more White sayings from other authors."
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> [I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-don-t-mind-the-job-of-saying-to-white-people-yes-this-is-what-i/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [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/)

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> [White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/white-on-white-crime-is-a-devastation-in-america-like-so-called-black/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/the-only-way-for-white-folks-to-reclaim-the-full-arc-of-their/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-think-it-s-extremely-important-to-challenge-white-brothers-and/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [ 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/)

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> [That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/that-is-an-extremely-important-role-how-white-brothers-and-sisters/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [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/)

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> [The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/the-consequences-of-whiteness-are-particularly-lethal-right-now-and/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/what-the-left-ends-up-missing-is-that-politics-have-always-been-at/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white…](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/)

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> [White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/white-privilege-allows-a-certain-kind-of-leisure-that-can-be-deployed/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/light-skinned-black-people-are-seen-to-be-closer-to-white-people-the/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/when-white-supremacy-becomes-institutional-it-begins-to-harm-the-very/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/there-s-a-great-book-about-john-kennedy-and-his-relationship-to-civil/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/whiteness-itself-is-artifice-is-fiction-is-a-construction-is/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/the-issue-of-redistribution-of-resources-and-wealth-needs-to-resolved/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/blackness-is-an-ocean-a-universe-a-possibility-that-can-never-be/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/if-white-and-black-and-red-and-brown-can-come-together-to-focus-our/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most…](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/)

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> [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/)

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> [There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/there-is-a-consciousness-as-an-agent-of-one-s-own-destiny-as-a-person/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/the-beauty-of-the-literary-art-the-grappling-with-the-black-church/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [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/)

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> [That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/that-is-my-job-as-an-intellectual-as-an-extension-of-my-vocation-to/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [ I hope \[white brothers and sisters\] read this book \[Tears we cannot stop\] and engage with it, but other white people have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/i-hope-white-brothers-and-sisters-read-this-book-tears-we-cannot-stop/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/there-s-no-question-that-o-j-simpson-had-been-a-substitute-white-man/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/white-supremacy-is-the-conscious-or-unconscious-belief-or-the/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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## Other authors on White

## 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/)

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