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The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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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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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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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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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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I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.
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I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
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