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There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
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Cornel West
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: June 2
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Cornel Ronald West
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When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
Cornel West
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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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.
Cornel West
I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
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I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
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I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people that's human being to human being.
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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
Cornel West
When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.
Cornel West
We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.
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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.
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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.
Cornel West
Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.
Cornel West
Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.
Cornel West
The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
Cornel West
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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But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.
Cornel West
Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
Cornel West
Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
Cornel West
White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.
Cornel West
