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what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

Cornel West

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.
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It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
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I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.
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It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.
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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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The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public
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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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You can't move forward until you look back.
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The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
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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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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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