Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Author Biography

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

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I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

Joanna Newsom

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New York is so unique, and you are not always encouraged to consider the people in the city your neighbors because of the fast pace and surface anonymity.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.

Joel Grey

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It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

Jenny Lewis

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I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet.

Jeremy Bulloch

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The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.

Matt McGorry

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My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Amiri Baraka

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It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

Tony Snow

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I started using the Internet when I was 12 years old. I would go into chat rooms and flirt. It was the beginning of the Internet for young people.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

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I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Romola Garai

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Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

Michael Moorcock

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I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

Liz Phair

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