Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

Michael Eric Dyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies.

John Malkovich

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At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.

Ann Demeulemeester

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And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

Michael Berryman

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Future's like an older brother to me, and Thug's more like a brother my age.

Metro Boomin

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I believe in free markets. I believe in free trade. I believe in creating the conditions that will allow that to happen. And if we do that, American companies are going to be pretty darn competitive.

John S. Watson

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I've always been thin. If you go back to when we first started I've always been skinny.

Robin Gibb

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No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

Liza Minnelli

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After all those years in the business, I asked myself, 'Am I really any good? Or am I only good because I'm with good people - a Murray Pearlstein, a Ralph Lauren?

Joseph Abboud

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Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

David Zinczenko

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A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don't talk about it.

Ashley McBryde

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Arcade Fire always churns out music that makes me want to move.

Phoebe Robinson

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