confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
CORNEL WESTMartin 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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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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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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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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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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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