Truth is fine. Absolutely.
CORNEL WESTTruth is fine. Absolutely.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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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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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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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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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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 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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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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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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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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