We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
CORNEL WESTRacism 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.
More Cornel West Quotes
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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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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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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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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Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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