Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
CORNEL WESTI 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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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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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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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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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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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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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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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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’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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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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