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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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There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.
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For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.
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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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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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You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.
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I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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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 like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.
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Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.
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liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.
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Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.
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Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.
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The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
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A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
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The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
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The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.
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You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.
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There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.
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