Agony Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American…

— Cornel West

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

— Molly Ivins

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey…

— Robin Williams

To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn't quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity, he has…

— Jacob Weisberg

Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson's life was to help balance the accumulation…

— Aberjhani

Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry,…

— Don Lemon

“This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Michael Jackson is a cake-and-eat-it kind of guy. He has never recognized or accepted the fact that when you shove yourself in people's face,…

— Todd Rundgren

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

— Barry Sonnenfeld