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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

Cornel West

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
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
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
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
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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Country People Rights
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
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
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
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

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