Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
CORNEL WESTDeath is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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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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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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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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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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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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