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I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Tulsa
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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
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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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There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
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The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.
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The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
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I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives.
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