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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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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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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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Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
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This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.
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I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.
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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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The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
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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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I recall coming across a line by the late Charles Tilly when he said, The conditions for the possibility of social movements have been called into question in the twenty-first century. And I said to myself, my god, a society in history without social movements, for me, is very difficult to live in.
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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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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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I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.
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You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
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Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.
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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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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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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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