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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

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
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
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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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
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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Christian Land Name
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
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
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
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.
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Country People Rights
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
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

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

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