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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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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.
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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
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Wall Street is stronger than ever.
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I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
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The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
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Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.
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And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.
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I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.
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There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.
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If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
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We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.
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