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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.

Cornel West

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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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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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.
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I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives.
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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.
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Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.
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Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.
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Jesus loves a free black man.
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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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Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.
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We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.
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The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
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The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.
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There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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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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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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Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.
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