We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
CORNEL WESTLove is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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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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I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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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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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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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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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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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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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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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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