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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

Cornel West

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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Hey People Thinking
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Dark Profound Root
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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Differences Fundamentals Organization
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
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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Ghetto Police Racism
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
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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Country Holiday Our People Society
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
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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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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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Believe Brother Gay
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness

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