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I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.
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The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.
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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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I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
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There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
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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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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
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I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
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Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
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I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives.
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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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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering
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Jesus loves a free black man.
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