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I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
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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 accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.
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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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I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.
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I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.
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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
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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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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
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The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.
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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.
Cornel West
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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The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
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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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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
Cornel West
There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
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The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.
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I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more Martin Luther King-like.
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