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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Oklahoma
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Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.
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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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In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
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I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people that's human being to human being.
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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
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If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.
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Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
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You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.
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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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Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
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The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.
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I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.
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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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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings. And that is a deep moral and spiritual issue, which can of course be backed up by Civil Rights Commissions which enforce the laws against any form of discrimination.
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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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The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.
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I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.
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