Quotes made famous by Michael Eric Dyson

Here are some quotes that I really enjoyed from Dr. Michael Eric Dyson...who is a professor at Georgetown University...he has taught at many institutions, DePaul University, Chicago Theological Seminary, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University and Brown University, University of Pennsylvania.


He has also penned several books...

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I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Minds?
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
... and a couple of others.

Michael Dyson Quotes...

1. “He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.”
   
   
2. “My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son.”
   
   
3. “It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution of American society because it is the ideas and thoughts of these young people that are going to shape society in the future.”
   
   
4. “There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leadership. A more diversified black community doesn't find it necessary to have one voice.”
   
   
5. “The tragedy is that we have failed to come to grips with the enormous achievement of our children, because we’re so angry with them. The larger world embraces them in ways we’ve failed to do.”
   
   
6. “tension between heterosexual and homosexual elements is especially pronounced—from the pulpit to the choir stand—and therefore vehemently resisted. You’ve got ‘straight’ men proclaiming their love for Jesus, even more than their love for parents, partners and progeny. And even though they consider him God, he’s still embodied on earth as a man. So their love for another man supersedes their love for anything or anybody else.”
   
   
7. "...to pursue morality in the best sense, means you ain't gonna make as much money as you could've otherwise made, even if you're rich. There are some things you ain't gonna do."
   
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