When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
CORNEL WESTHe who learns death unlearns slavery.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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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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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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Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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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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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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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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