He who learns death unlearns slavery.
CORNEL WESTI 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.
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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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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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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.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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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.
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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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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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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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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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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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