Michael Eric Dyson Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Reality, Moral

• Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Mean, Reality, Race

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

• I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently global, that nothing American television could do to besmirch his character could ever, if you will, deny the legitimate genius that he represents and America has responded, as indeed has the globe.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Art, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Blackness also has positive dimensions, those that bear the political meanings of African American people, among other blacks, who have struggled for self-determination and freedom for centuries. The absence of such an identity doesn't automatically guarantee that we will be free of the images and ideals that fuel stereotypes about black identity. Changing the name will not alter the reality.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Reality, People, Political

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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