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

Cornel West

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
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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Believe Christian Intellectual
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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Ghetto Police Racism
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
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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Book Miss People
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Differences Successful Year
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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Smiley Water Way
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
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake

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