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I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Cornel Ronald West
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There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.
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The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
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It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.
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There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
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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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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.
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The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.
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As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
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I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.
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Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.
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liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.
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We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
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The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.
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