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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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Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.
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There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.
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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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I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
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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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Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.
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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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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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Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.
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Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.
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A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
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Education is soul crafting.
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I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.
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