About Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson is an American professor, author, Baptist minister and radio host who teaches in the College of Arts and Science and the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. He holds a Princeton Ph.D. and has been described as a child of the streets who never separates his academic work from his life experience. Dyson has written or edited more than twenty books covering race, religion and politics. He has also authored biographies of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Jay‑Z.
![“[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.” quote by Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/michael-eric-dyson-1424_appetite_mrs-james-my-fifth-grade-teacher-introdu_519534.png)
![“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 say in the same style that I said it in those other books. I felt compelled to preach.” quote by Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3e/michael-eric-dyson-1424_book_i-ve-written-a-lot-of-other-books-and-th_45441.jpg)
