Truth is fine. Absolutely.
CORNEL WESTIt’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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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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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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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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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