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

Cornel West

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
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
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
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
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
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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Differences Fundamentals Organization
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
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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Democracy Majority Rights
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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Littles Magazine Reading
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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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
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
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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Philosophy Understanding Way
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
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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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar

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