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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Cornel West

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
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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Belief Difference Strong
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
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
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
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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Entangled Falling Love
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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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Country Holiday Our People Society
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
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability

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