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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.

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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
Even
Trying
Whoever
Grow
Willing
Grows
True

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The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.
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I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people that's human being to human being.
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Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.
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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.
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I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
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Wall Street is stronger than ever.
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There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
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Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
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And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.
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There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
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You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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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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Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
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There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.
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I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
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