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Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.
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Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word value repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.
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We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.
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We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.
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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.
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Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was that dream? It wasn't the American Dream. It was a dream that all human beings, especially poor and working people, be treated with dignity.
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There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
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There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.
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