Michael eric dyson

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled,...

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.