Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
CORNEL WESTconfining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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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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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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Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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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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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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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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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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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