Michael Eric Dyson Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

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

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Privilege, Language, Intimacy

  Michael Eric Dyson (1996). “Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture”, Oxford University Press, USA

• Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black man, whose culture he has self-consciously adopted. But he was reared largely by his white grandparents. He lived a kind of racially bipartisan experience, and he will be able to speak a language that resonates with both communities.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Men, Two, White

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use language, understand your heritage, interpret your history, identify with your kin, figure out what your meaning and worth to a society that places values on you beyond your control. And it's also about what people see you as - or take you to be.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Blood, Race, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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