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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?

Cornel West

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
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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Country People Rights
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
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
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.
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Littles Magazine Reading
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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Christian Land Name
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Believe Christian Intellectual
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship

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