Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it begins to harm the folk who look like the folk who want to be in charge. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood this, Malcolm X understood this, James Baldwin really understood this.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Author Biography

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

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Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

Andrew Bird

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If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life.

Max Heindel

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I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Stewart Udall

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Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Michelle Obama

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I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

Molly Crabapple

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A lot of the original people on 'SNL' came through Chicago - and Toronto, I'm sure - but Chicago was the center of it all. When I was there, Chris Farley - I knew him; we hung out and stuff - he went off to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was like, 'It's possible to be from here and make it.'

Jay Chandrasekhar

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The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

Colleen McCullough

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Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

Anthony Quinn

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Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

William Petty

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I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.

Sy Montgomery

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We all have bits that we don't like, but you don't have to be a size 10 to look wonderful.

Twiggy

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Golf is me.

Tiger Woods

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