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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

Cornel West

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Cornel Ronald West
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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 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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If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
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For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
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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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Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
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To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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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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We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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 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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It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
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We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.
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