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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
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Philosopher
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University Teacher
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
Whoever
Grow
Willing
Grows
True
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Trying
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And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.
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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
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