"Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites."

Previous Quote

That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.

— Michael Eric Dyson