I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I … - Michael Eric Dyson

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We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.

Michael Eric Dyson

I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.

Analysis, Book, Criticism, Cultural, Straightforward, Writing

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Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

Accumulate, Help, Justice, Kindness, Order, Substitute

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.

Home, Live, Religious, School

Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

Black Youth, Hearing, Light, Politics, Voice

If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as your experiences are pressured by empirical investigation of complex phenomena. I suspect that even when you control for variables of individual laziness, you'll see that what you see before you masses of black poor people unwilling to work hard to get better will not be as simply concluded as you might at first believe. Continue your good work.

Believe, Hard Work, Masses, People, Poor, Variables

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

Justice, Like, Public, Sound, Speak, Speaks

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The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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Wesley Morris

Everybody brings their thing to their criticism. I bring this wealth of opinions and feeling and knowledge about race and gender and sexuality. I feel like I have it, I may as well express it, and if it's applicable to what I'm writing about and I'm not forcing it, I should try to use it, because it's interesting. It speaks to more than some people.

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Amy Jackson

We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.

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John Fowles

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

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J. K. Rowling

He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.

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