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Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an academic, author, and radio host. He is a professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited 18 books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marvin Gaye, Nas's debut album Illmatic, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur, and Hurricane Katrina.

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Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.

Culture, Deeper, Democracy, Expression, Presley

There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.

Fight, Fighting, Groups, Individual, Levels, Make

I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.

Black, Book, Culture, Evident, Struggle

I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.

Calling, Accepted, Received

Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

Black Youth, Clothes, Clothing Line, Combs, Millions, Russell

I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing. " And it's my job to educate white folks every day.

Jobs, Thinking, White, Missing, Think, Mind

Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.

African American, Article, Genius, People, Raw, Real

But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is just intolerable. When you look at the disparity in terms of education and access to fair schooling, it is horrible. If this would happen to white people in this country, it would not be tolerated.

Class, Country, Horrible, People, White

Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.

America, Brother, Miss, Political, White

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

Contrite, Four, Humble, Pointing, Should

The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black community that was both bulwark to the larger white society as well as a threshing ground, so to speak, to hash out the differences that black people have among ourselves.

Art, Complicated, Differences, Hash, White, Wrestling

Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.

Empathy, Men, Stripes, World, Youth

When you look at a guy like a Jay-Z or look at a guy like a Nas, you don't necessarily qualify them as conscious rap purely, although they are extremely conscious of the social inequities that prevail.

Guy, Like, Looks, Rap, Social

America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.

America, Class, Developments, Rights, Witnessed

Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.

Black, Light, Look, Operated, People, White

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

Colossal, Feet, Guy, People, Vulnerable

America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a black preacher rises to his or her craft at the height of his or her ambition and the desire to tell America the truth.

Ambition, America, Black, Single Mom, Tell, Vision

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Hip Hop, Pavement, Hips, Poetry, Brilliance

No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.

Behave, Groups, Hatred, Poorest, Self, Similarly

I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

Bury, Dismiss, Giving, Thinking, Trying, Words

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