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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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Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.
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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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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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It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.
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I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.
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There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.
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Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.
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The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to a struggle for justice. And most importantly, for me, it's tied to a recognition that I am a cracked vessel.
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Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope.
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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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As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
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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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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.
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Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
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I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.
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All you have is a gift a to give.
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