You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
CORNEL WESTTruth is fine. Absolutely.
More Cornel West Quotes
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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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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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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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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Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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