Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Michael Eric Dyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 23, 1958

Topics

PoetryHip-HopBrilliancePavement

My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.

Andrew Marr

DreamNewspaperBuyingKids

We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.

John Lanchester

LifeIdeasThinkingThoughtFeel

The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that.

Robert Lepage

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Every time I have a hit, I buy a Rolls.

John Tavener

TimeBuyHitRollsEveryEvery Time

My son has an old mother.

Sophie B. Hawkins

MotherSonOld

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

Steven Van Zandt

DayJobDo The Right ThingThinkYou

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Socrates

KnowledgeMeaningYouKnowTrue

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Ruth Rendell

JobPeopleThinkMostProfession

It's not easy to play a match every two days.

Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

EasyPlayTwoDaysMatchEvery

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

Donald Tusk

AngryPlainGettingIncapableAngela

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

Chris Rock

GoodKnowledgeComedyYouTelevision

Lots of headless chickens running around - artists with 14 million followers on Twitter, some making millions, none making cultural impact.

Boy George

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