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CORNEL WESTLove 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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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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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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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