Michael Eric Dyson Quotes - Page 6

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• A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack gospel music, but I'm not leading a crusade against it. Of course, the vices of hip-hop are far more influential, I understand. But the good that hip-hop transmits, the power of the culture to rally the best of our protest, and uplift, and resistance, traditions, is often unfairly overlooked.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Uplifting, Culture, Influential

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  African American, Identity, Negative

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you can occupy. There are things that you can do on a daily basis that will make a difference in moving the needle in individual lives. When we look at the mentoring of young black kids, for instance, the number-one mentor group is white women. I think after that maybe it's black women, and then white men, and then black men. We can make all kinds of arguments about that.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Moving, Kids, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Team, Player, Thinking

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• I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Book, White

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• The demand for racial (and sexual) justice gets reduced to politics of identity - and excoriating the so-called perpetrators of the identity politics.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Identity Politics, Justice, Demand

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Teaching, Peers, Evaluation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Impact, Years, Church

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Biblical, Impact, Literacy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Cities, Would Be, West

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• I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Ghetto, Interesting, Childhood

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that empathy. It's one thing to attain it intellectually, but it's another thing to do something about it.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Empathy, Problem, Manifestation

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do not participate in that brand of animus, that gas-bagging of enormous bigotry.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, White, Degrees

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white identity that's been rendered invisible and neutral because it's seen as objective and universal. As a result, we don't pay attention to how whiteness is one among many racial identities, and that identity politics have been here since the get-go.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Heart, White, Identity Politics

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue ribbon reciting the vernacular poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, in particular "Little Brown Baby."

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Baby, Teacher, Blue

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, Writing, Criticism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kids, Age, Church

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Kings, Thinking, Honor

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• America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rights, Collective Unconscious, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that he [Michael Jackson] did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that was denied to himself. There's no question that the transcendent art that he created was a means, an instrument, a vehicle for others to experience what he didn't.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Self, Hatred, Groups

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• What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be measured in terms of its political effect. It's the very spiritual uplift of the nation. It's the very tenor and tone, morally speaking, of what this country is about. And so the unleashing of these fierce and ferocious beliefs have a potential impact that is quite deleterious, quite negative, quite destructive. And I think we have to say something.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Country

  "A 'Moral Obligation' To Protest Trump, Says Michael Eric Dyson". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 19, 2016.

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• Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Real, People, Black

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• 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

  America, People, Deserve Better

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Said, Criticize

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