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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

Cornel West

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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Christian Land Name
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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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Hey People Thinking
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
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
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
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Dark Profound Root
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
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
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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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