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There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

Cornel West

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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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Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
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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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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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Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
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All you have is a gift a to give.
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Jesus loves a free black man.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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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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