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

Cornel West

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
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
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
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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Believe Brother Gay
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
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
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
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
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
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
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
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
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
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

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