Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

Michael Eric Dyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Be it 120 frames or 24 frames or film or theatre, you're trying to be a fully formed human being and trying to be honest.

Joe Alwyn

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The first is last, and the last is first.

Joanna Southcott

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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

John Malkovich

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I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.'

Angela Bassett

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I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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White women love me 'cause of my edge. And I love white women.

Tracy Morgan

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My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10.

Robert De Niro

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I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

Russell Simmons

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Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

Mitch Kapor

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I'd love to do something with Bruno Mars because I love his voice and the playful and intelligent way he delivers a song.

LP

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Swaying to new beats, hearing old favorites, and drinking expensive beer are ageless pastimes.

Julia Hartz

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Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

Janette Rallison

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