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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].

Cornel West

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
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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Believe Christian Intellectual
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
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
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
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
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
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
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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Country People Rights

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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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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