Quotes About Michael Eric Dyson

I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

What gives me so much pause, and makes me feel so badly, [is] that the country is willing to be that intolerant and not understand the empathy that's necessary to understand other groups' situations.

To suggest that the lack of personal initiative is the source, and not the consequence, of poverty, is to confuse cause and effect" (p. 206).