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For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

Cornel West

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
Critic
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
Justice
Love
Empathize
Prophetic
Committed
Compassion
Exercise
Courage

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The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
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Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.
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But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.
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To be human you must bear witness to justice.
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When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
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It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering
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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country. - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream
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To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.
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I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.
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I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people that's human being to human being.
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To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
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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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There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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