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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

Cornel West

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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Philosophy Understanding Way
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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Differences Fundamentals Organization
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
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Country Holiday Our People Society
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Belief Difference Strong
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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Believe Brother Gay
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap

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