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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.

Cornel West

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

Think Thinking Value Yourself
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
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Dark Profound Root
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
CORNEL WEST

Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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.
CORNEL WEST

Littles Magazine Reading
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
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
CORNEL WEST

Believe Brother Gay
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
CORNEL WEST

Speak Suffering Want
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
CORNEL WEST

Christian Political President
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
CORNEL WEST

High Quality Trust Without
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
CORNEL WEST

Belief Difference Strong
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
CORNEL WEST

Bitterness Long Rage

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.

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