Michael Eric Dyson
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Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over 
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
I wish I was home", She said miserably. 
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. 
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. 
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is ... 
I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me ... 
I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"
It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... 
I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... 
Each day before the end of eve
The measure of a man is what he does with power. 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion 
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... 
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... 
His face spreads into a warm smile. “As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars �... 
Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... 
Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ... 
Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even ... 
I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z. 
I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. 
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze ... 
Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... 
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. 
The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is... 
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce... 
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you thi... 
If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But ... 
Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter. 