Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
CORNEL WESTBeing a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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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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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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Frederick Douglas’s agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it’s spilt over for women’s rights; it’s split over for worker’s rights and so forth.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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