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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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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Philosopher
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University Teacher
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.
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The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
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We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.
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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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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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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
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The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.
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The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.
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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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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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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering
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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
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The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.
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what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.
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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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