Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
CORNEL WESTI 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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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?
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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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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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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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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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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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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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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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