Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

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• My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.
• 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.
• Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on…
• Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy'…
• Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race…
• Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough…
• Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal…
• Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent…
• 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 $50…
• I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to…
• I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if…
• I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison,…
• I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet…
• I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was…
• I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also…
• I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who…
• I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a…
• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think…
• If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it…
• Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters…

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