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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

Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks 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
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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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.
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Entangled Falling Love
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
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
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
Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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Book Miss People
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
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

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

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