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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

Cornel West

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.
CORNEL WEST

Littles Magazine Reading
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
CORNEL WEST

Believe Brother Gay
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
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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Differences Fundamentals Organization
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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People Sight White
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
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
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

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