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Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
Actor
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Philosopher
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
Cornel R. West
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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.
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Education is soul crafting.
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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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The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years Be successful, be successful, be successful as opposed to Be great, be great, be great. There's a qualitative difference.
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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
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I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.
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The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.
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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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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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The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.
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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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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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