He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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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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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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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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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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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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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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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