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I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

Cornel West

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
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
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
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
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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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
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
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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
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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Entangled Falling Love
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism

I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

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