I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

Michael Eric Dyson Quotes