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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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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.
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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
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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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Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.
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You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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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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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I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.
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