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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.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.
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