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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.

Cornel West

I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Differences Successful Year
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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Smiley Water Way
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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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Book Miss People
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
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
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
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
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
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
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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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake

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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