It's been a long time coming. A couple of years ago I thought it might never happen, but this year I thought it could, more so than any other year. I can't put it into words how good it feels.


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Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
ESTHER DYSON
I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is...
ESTHER DYSON
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of hi...
ESTHER DYSON
Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal.
GEORGE DYSON
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as t...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I f...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-n...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American pr...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves u...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, u...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it ...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how inform...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enor...
FREEMAN JOHN DYSON
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rap...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his hero...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained ...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you g...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words &...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically ...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone dar...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and Go...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation;...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Ain't no gay filter for the cash.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leader...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution ...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifyin...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day,...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jack...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply out...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON
I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fat...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON