"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."

-- Michael Eric Dyson

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“Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.”
“Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.”

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“One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.”
“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.”
“I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.”
“I support the president 100 percent - when hes right.”
“I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.”
“Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you donâ€™t do or say anything, itâ€™s not real compassion.”

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