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Cornel West

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
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Kindness Radical Sweetness
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
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
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
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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Idea Men Wise
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
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
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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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
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
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
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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People Sight White
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
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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Country People Rights

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