If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and... →
James Dyson
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards... →
You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will... →
Michael Eric Dyson
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied... →
I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son.... →
When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The... →
I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want... →
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere... →
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's... →