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Cornel West

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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Christian Land Name
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
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
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
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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
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
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
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
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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Littles Magazine Reading
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
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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Belief Difference Strong

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