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When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country. - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
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So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.
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I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.
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I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.
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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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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jesus loves a free black man.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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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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I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives.
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Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.
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The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.
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I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.
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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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