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Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
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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Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.
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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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Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.
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Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.
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Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.
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I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.
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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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Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was that dream? It wasn't the American Dream. It was a dream that all human beings, especially poor and working people, be treated with dignity.
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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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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
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If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.
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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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The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.
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I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.
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I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
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It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering
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You can't move forward until you look back.
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It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.
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