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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.

Cornel West

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
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
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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Entangled Falling Love
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
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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Believe Christian Intellectual
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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Country Holiday Our People Society
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
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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Book Miss People
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
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.
CORNEL WEST

Smiley Water Way
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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Littles Magazine Reading
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
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

Belief Difference Strong
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap

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