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  • Cornel West Quote - Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
  • Cornel West Quote - Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
  • Cornel West Quote - Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
  • Cornel West Quote - Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
  • Cornel West Quote - Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
  • Cornel West Quote - Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Cornel West

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

    Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

    I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.

    I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.

    Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

    Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

    Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.

    I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.

    CORNEL WEST
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

    We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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?

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop. Download This Image

    Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Cornel West Quote - 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)

    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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