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Michael Eric Dyson
American
Author
Born:
Oct 23
,
1958
Black
Life
Man
People
World
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
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Mark Twain
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Zig Ziglar
When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all.
Michael Eric Dyson
Love
Death
God
You
Bible
Hurt
Humanity
People
Speak
Destruction
Word
Mind
Will
Closed
Mouth
Live
Believe
Living
Think
Despair
Our
Neither
Consult
Dealing
Nor
Exist
Midst
Should
Conquer
Shut
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.
Michael Eric Dyson
Somebody
White
Others
Machine
Some
Superiority
Individual
Unconscious
Driving
Investment
Demand
Participation
Supremacy
Operating
Because
Singular
Perpetuity
Inferior
Place
While
Bigot
Inherent
Belief
Believed
Conscious
Innately
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 that's the case, you ain't self-made.
Michael Eric Dyson
You
People
Believe
Changed
Wayne
Kind
Bootstraps
John
Case
Someone
John Wayne
Individualism
Self-Made
Diapers
Up
American
Where
Themselves
Your
Pull
My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.
Michael Eric Dyson
Me
Ambition
Community
Nurtured
Out
Planted
Grow
Nowhere
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 discomfort with the status quo to make a change.
Michael Eric Dyson
Day
Change
Comedy
Cause
End Of The Day
Enough
Humorous
Ways
Ourselves
Status
Status Quo
Observe
Force
Make
Discomfort
End
Quo
Us
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 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.
Michael Eric Dyson
Wisdom
People
Better
Prosperity
Group
Lesson
Ought
Out
Hurricane
Hurricane Katrina
About
Something
Shared
Town
Disaster
Ticket
Learn
Overwhelmed
Than
America
American
Want
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Bus
Poor
Exploded
Katrina
Exposing
Deserve
Levees
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
Crime
Black
Devastation
Like
Proximity
America
So-Called
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 black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.
Michael Eric Dyson
Politics
Music
Best
History
Youth
Light
Black
Important
Topics
Hop
Voice
Gives
Contemporary
Sheds
Because
Hip
Hip-Hop
Hearing
Precisely
Race
Used
Marginal
With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how information is delivered has changed tremendously. The landscape for news is a different place, and people have to accept that.
Michael Eric Dyson
News
Facebook
People
Social Media
Twitter
Changed
Tremendously
Evolution
Facebook And Twitter
Delivered
Accept
How
Blogging
Different
Information
Place
Social
Landscape
Different Place
Who
Media
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 that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.
Michael Eric Dyson
Good
You
Surrender
Honor
Will
Pretending
King
Face
Own
Think
Faults
Ourselves
Hurricane
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Wrestle
He
Fail
Failures
Him
His
Sins
Greatly
Times
Did
Center
Right
Luther
In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth.
Michael Eric Dyson
Truth
You
Nothing
Radical
Minds
Further
Democrat
Anti-American
Person
American
Patriot
Automatically
Then
Communist
Who
Many
Therefore
Socialist
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 heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.
Michael Eric Dyson
World
Black
Sense
Took
Everything
Heterosexual
Vocabulary
General
Given
Outside
Suppose
Most
Fell
Sure
Acceptable
Norm
Same
Which
View
Inherited
Orientation
Start
World View
Christians
In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.
Michael Eric Dyson
Democracy
You
Man
Engineer
Down
Garbage
Say
Something
Got
Get
Professor
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 lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
Michael Eric Dyson
Best
Joy
Exhausted
Reflect
Sense
Lyrics
Strive
Hop
Must
Seductive
Features
Never
Beats
Scholarship
Soulful
Hip
Hip-Hop
Intelligent
Offering
Same
Sitting
Samples
Form
Rhythms
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
Michael Eric Dyson
Myself
People
Black
Our
No Interest
Having
Detroit
Been
Interest
Them
Poor
Hometown
Beloved
George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an American every day, ordinary everyman, and as a result of that, played up his fumbling speech because it signified that he was a good guy. That is deeply and profoundly anti-intellectual.
Michael Eric Dyson
Good
Day
Every Day
Result
Pretending
Every
Pedigree
Everyman
Ran
Harvard
About
Guy
He
Yale
Because
George
George Bush
His
Campaign
Up
American
Being
Where
Ordinary
Bush
Deeply
Played
Good Guy
Profoundly
Speech
When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.
Michael Eric Dyson
Life
You
Sometimes
Church
Smell
Corporate
Corporate America
See
Temples
Horrible
More
Like
Know
Dealt
Hip-Hop
Odious
America
Subtly
Reinforced
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.
Michael Eric Dyson
People
Money
Dark
Clothes
Philanthropy
Deferred
Give
Wrong
Emperor
Bunch
Cannot
Who
Shown
Even
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 halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.
Michael Eric Dyson
Music
Genius
Remember
Debate
Kid
Possibilities
High
About
Had
He
Terms
Altered
Halo
Michael
Michael Jackson
American
Jackson
Psyche
African
African-American
Capable
American Music
Chocolate
Who
Deep
Fundamentally
I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century.
Michael Eric Dyson
Anxiety
Half
Think
Fatigue
Paranoia
Case
Simpson
Over
Half Century
Also
America
Endured
Century
Racial
Last
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.
Michael Eric Dyson
Time
Spiritual
Creative
Genius
Black
Long
Long Time
Had
Mainstream
Most
Oprah
Oprah Winfrey
Quite
Quite A Long Time
Represents
Public
Ingenious
Creative Expression
Expression
Ever
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 miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.
Michael Eric Dyson
Political
Church
Black
White
Striking
Worship
Black America
Would
Would-Be
Find
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Wright
Fact
Prophetic
Miss
Greatest
Preachers
Sisters
America
Refusing
Us
Produced
Many
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 support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.
Michael Eric Dyson
Life
Son
People
Welfare
Matter
Father
College
Young
Relates
Frames
Topics
Jobs
Kind
Degrees
Through
Take
Had
Support
Until
Because
How
Discuss
Person
Get
Average
Average Person
View
Many
Shows
Lived
Now
Watching
I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want to make the life of the mind sexy.
Michael Eric Dyson
Life
Me
People
Mind
Black
Young
Damn
Sexy
Brother
Point
He
Sharp
Like
Look
Make
Go
Represent
Want
Young People
I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.
Michael Eric Dyson
Man
School
Black
Born
Segregated
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 and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.
Michael Eric Dyson
Class
Reality
Made
Situation
Other
System
Rigid
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Minorities
Horrible
Blacks
Caste
Also
Without
How
Tragedy
Targets
Escaped
Died
Interact
Aftermath
Race
Them
Poor
Means
Whites
Certainly
Coast
Katrina
Large
Suffered
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