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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
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As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
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Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a point there. I don't think that the words are necessarily nullified. It's just that that context is something you ought to be suspicious of.
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It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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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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I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.
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The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.
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I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
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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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The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.
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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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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
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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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Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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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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Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
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The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.
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Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.
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