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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

Cornel West

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
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
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
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
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
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
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
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
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
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?
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Country Holiday Our People Society
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President

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