Michael Dyson Quotes

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

I will lay off the pro-Negro crap.

You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are concerned with how cute or how pretty. Then let's really get basic and persecute ugly people!

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.

If all we are for is black people and white people who like black people, then I have nothing to say to Trump who is only for white people and black people who like him.

I don't believe in blanket statements on race.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races.

This problem, which exists because of the presence of … Negroes in this country, can be permanently solved only by the physical separation of the races or by resigning ourselves to total mongrelization resulting in the destruction of both the white and black races

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

The Southern Negro is not an incurably ignorant ape. The Southern white masses are not biologically degenerate.

I've always been talking about race in some sort of capacity.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

I'm not going to play a racial game. With me, you're going to meet a guy named Shelby Steele, and you will have to get to know me as an individual. The color of my skin won't tell you anything. I think there's more and more of that in America.

White people have always shown their superiority over blacks with their feet, moving out of black neighborhoods with the fear that their kids will turn into one of them. And now, through the magic of MTV, damned if it didn't turn out that way!

If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America.

It is a lie that America is racist

I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.

I don't sign for white people.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.