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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.

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
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
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
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
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
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
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
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
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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 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
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Believe Brother Gay
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
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.

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