Michael Eric Dyson Quotes About Books

• I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Struggle, Book, Black

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

• I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur, Marvin Gaye and Bill Cosby. But even in the books that take up major figures, I hope to provoke conversation, insight and understanding about these personalities by providing new, fresh and vital information and analysis about them.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, Personality, Understanding

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

• There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, Rights, White

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

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, Writing, Criticism

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to say in the same style that I said it in those other books. I felt compelled to preach.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, Style, Tears

• I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have a better chance of speaking more directly to the white folk they know, because they're less likely to be subject to ridicule. They're insiders, so to speak.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Brother, Book, White

• He argumentado incansablemente, casi interminablemente, en tantos libros, sobre la necesidad de la reconstrucción social, económica, de la sociedad. La exigencia de que las personas estén presentes, de que contribuyan a la reorganización de la sociedad, de que reconozcan su propia complicidad en un sistema del que obtienen beneficios y ventajas, a menudo sin reconocerlo, y la incomodidad, la forma incómoda en que eso debe reconocerse.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, People, Demand

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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