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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 West

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
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
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
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
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
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Belief Difference Strong
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
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
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
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate

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