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An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.


James Dyson

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MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and Go...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation;...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Ain't no gay filter for the cash.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leader...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution ...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifyin...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day,...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jack...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply out...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fat...
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