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?
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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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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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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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Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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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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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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