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I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.
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Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.
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Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.
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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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Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
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The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.
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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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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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American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.
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I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.
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Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.
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I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
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Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.
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I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.
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Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
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The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.
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To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
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