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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
Actor
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Tulsa
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Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
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Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
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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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You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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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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There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
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I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that's fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
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We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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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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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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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.
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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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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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Wall Street is stronger than ever.
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