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 WESTAnytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
More Cornel West Quotes
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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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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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I’m a Christian, but I’m not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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?
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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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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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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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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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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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