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.
CORNEL WESTRage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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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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