Michael Dyson Quotes
Responsibility means nothing if you do not have a forum in which to exercise it.
Dyson was explaining the problem of Black authors getting published and having the forum for their views in particular and Black views in general. Dyson however, did not appear to take the Internet and the bloggers into account at the time. We are not far from the time that printed books will be obsolete and they will be distrusted electronically. When that is so,the classic publisher role as a gatekeeper, will end.
Michael Eric Dyson, Columnist, Media Critic, Baptist Minister, and Educator, C-SPAN, Book TV, August 12, 2006
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Michael Eric Dyson is an American academic, author, and radio host. He is a professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited 18 books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marvin Gaye, Nas's debut album Illmatic, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Hurricane Katrina.
