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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Oklahoma
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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
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There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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.
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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 take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
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We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.
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There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
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As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
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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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The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
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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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You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.
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The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.
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To be human you must bear witness to justice.
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Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.
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I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people that's human being to human being.
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
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