black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

Cornel West

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?
CORNEL WEST

Country Holiday Our People Society
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
CORNEL WEST

Bitterness Long Rage
Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
CORNEL WEST

Book Miss People
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
CORNEL WEST

Assumption Hidden Interrogate
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].
CORNEL WEST

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

Think Thinking Value Yourself
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
CORNEL WEST

Dark Profound Root
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
CORNEL WEST

Jazz Music Need
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
CORNEL WEST

Democracy Majority Rights
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
CORNEL WEST

Ordinary People Wake
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.
CORNEL WEST

Country People Rights
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.
CORNEL WEST

Philosophy Understanding Way
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
CORNEL WEST

Christian Political President
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.
CORNEL WEST

Entangled Falling Love
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
CORNEL WEST

Speak Suffering Want
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.
CORNEL WEST

Ghetto Police Racism

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cornel West Quotes