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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Philosopher
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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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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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
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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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None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
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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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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
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It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.
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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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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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You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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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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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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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.
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White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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