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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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To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
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I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
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The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.
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You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.
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Education is soul crafting.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
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I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
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We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.
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The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.
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Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
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Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word value repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.
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It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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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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The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to a struggle for justice. And most importantly, for me, it's tied to a recognition that I am a cracked vessel.
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