Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

Michael Eric Dyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

Jeremy Stoppelman

SuccessDecisionsYouWrongAdapt

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

John Connally

YouOfficeOutStatesman

I love kids, outings, camping, sports, Legoland, all the Daddy stuff. I love it. I wish I could just do that, but I have to work, too.

Mekhi Phifer

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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Maya Angelou

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The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.

Ann Cotton

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The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Jeffrey Kluger

FaithScienceBestReligionDeep

Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

Lu Yu

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I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.

Mo Rocca

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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

CuriousSpringTrueMy OwnOwnBeen

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

Annalee Newitz

ChangeCharacterTimeI AmPeople

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Phil McGraw

ChallengeSufferingMeaningFinding

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

Sheena Iyengar

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