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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Cornel West

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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Christian Land Name
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
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
Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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Book Miss People
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
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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Differences Successful Year
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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
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
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
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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Democracy Majority Rights
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
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
Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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Smiley Water Way
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
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

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