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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

Cornel West

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

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
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
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
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
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
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
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
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
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
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake

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