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There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

Cornel West

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Philosopher
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University Teacher
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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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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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
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There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.
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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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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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Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.
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