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Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

Cornel West

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
Critic
Philosopher
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
True
Even
Trying
Whoever
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Willing
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Jesus loves a free black man.
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what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.
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So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.
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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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The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
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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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In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
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All you have is a gift a to give.
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