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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

Cornel West

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political 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
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
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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Philosophy Understanding Way
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
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
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
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
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
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
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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Inspirational Loyalty Relationship
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism

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