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There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
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To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
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We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.
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I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
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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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I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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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 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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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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I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.
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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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I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
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Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empireearlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future.
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The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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