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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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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
Critic
Philosopher
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University Teacher
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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