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Cornel West

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
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
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
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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
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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Hey People Thinking
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
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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Speak Suffering Want
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate

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