Ability 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 reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently global, that…

— 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

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

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

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

— Molly Ivins

Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a…

— Werner Sollors

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…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

— D. B. Sweeney

Michael Jackson? He was something more (than one of my favorite entertainers), a true friend. He wasn't just a genius. Above all, he was…

— Kobe Bryant