Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I just need to be me.

Jimmy Graham

MeNeedJust

I'm a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man's world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.

Jim Webb

LiveMyselfManFightSchoolI Am

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Joel Osteen

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The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.

Joel Salatin

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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

Max Beerbohm

NightSayLast NightLastAbleEver

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

Jeannette Walls

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Sometimes success means having the right idea in the right place at the right time. Other times, it's about not being afraid to quit and move onto something new.

John Rampton

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The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

Steve Irwin

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Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Steven Rattner

BusinessMoreDifficultPoliticians

I don't buy any leather goods or anything made from animal products - no down, nothing. It's something people should be mindful of.

Torrey DeVitto

AnimalPeopleDownNothingAnything

I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I'm really excited to do experiments like squeezing an egg into a bottle and growing crystals. I'm really getting into hobbies.

Rivers Cuomo

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Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.

Mary Pilon

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