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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.
Cornel West
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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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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I was a gangster when I was young. I had a Robin Hood mentality and tended to always want to support the weak against the strong, but sometimes it was cohesive and I really needed to fall in love with the power of education to find the right venue to express my rage. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes.
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If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.
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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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It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
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I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.
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I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.
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Justice is what love looks like in public.
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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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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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There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
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I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
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I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.
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You can't move forward until you look back.
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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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