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Truth is fine. Absolutely.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
Critic
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.
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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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liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.
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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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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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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
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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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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
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It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering
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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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He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.
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It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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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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I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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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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