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For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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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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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
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The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.
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