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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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If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.
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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.
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You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
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You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.
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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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You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.
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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.
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
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The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
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Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.
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Context shapes who you are.
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There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.
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Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was that dream? It wasn't the American Dream. It was a dream that all human beings, especially poor and working people, be treated with dignity.
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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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When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.
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Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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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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