Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
CORNEL WESTAnger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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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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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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