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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
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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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Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
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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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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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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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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
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You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
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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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