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I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.

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Michael Eric Dyson

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

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Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

Accumulate, Help, Justice, Kindness, Order, Substitute

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.

Home, Live, Religious, School

Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

Black Youth, Hearing, Light, Politics, Voice

If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as your experiences are pressured by empirical investigation of complex phenomena. I suspect that even when you control for variables of individual laziness, you'll see that what you see before you masses of black poor people unwilling to work hard to get better will not be as simply concluded as you might at first believe. Continue your good work.

Believe, Hard Work, Masses, People, Poor, Variables

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

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