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I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
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If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
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When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.
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You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.
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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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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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Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.
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The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.
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You can't move forward until you look back.
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Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.
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I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
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