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 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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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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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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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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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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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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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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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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