Michael Eric Dyson

I guess I'm a Luddite.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Race makes class hurt more.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

Ain't no gay filter for the cash.

— Michael Eric Dyson

It's not enough to be against something.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

— Michael Eric Dyson

In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.

— Michael Eric Dyson

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.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

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

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an…

— 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…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“This is written to you, my friends, because I feel led by the Spirit to preach to you. I don't mind if…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“I sometimes think of how the nigger crawled from the newly forming white imagination as a denial of everything that was enlightened…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There are many things that black women can continue to do to help black folk. First, black women have historically been among…

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

“Beloved, to be white is to know that you have at your own hand, or by extension, through institutionalized means, the power…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“There is a big difference between the act of owning up to your part in perpetuating white privilege and the notion that…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“White folk commit the bulk of the crimes in our nation. And, beloved, it might surprise you that white folk commit the…

— 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…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'

— Michael Eric Dyson

Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Yes it is true . . . America is a racist country.”

— Michael Eric Dyson