Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
CORNEL WESTconfining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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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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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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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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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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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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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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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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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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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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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