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That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white brothers and sisters will not hear it from a person like me, necessarily.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Michael Eric Dyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 23
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My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.
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My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.
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