Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
CORNEL WESTI 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
More Cornel West Quotes
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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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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confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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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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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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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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