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Cornel West

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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Smiley Water Way
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
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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Idea Men Wise
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
Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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Book Miss People
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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Hey People Thinking
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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People Sight White

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