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I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

Cornel West

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  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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  He who learns death unlearns slavery.

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  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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  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

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  Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.

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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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  Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

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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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  When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

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  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.

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  Truth is fine. Absolutely.

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  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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  There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

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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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  I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.

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