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Cornel West

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
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
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
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
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
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
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
I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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People Sight White
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Idea Men Wise
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
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

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