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.
CORNEL WESTMusic is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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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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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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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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