I think that when we talk about education I was also blessed to talk with my dear brother Arne Duncan. I had… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I want to learn something from my atheistic brothers and sisters, even though I'm a Christian. I want to learn something from… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You… — Cornel West Copy Share
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.' — Cornel West Copy Share
“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.” — Cornel West Copy Share
“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]” — Cornel West Copy Share
When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed… — Cornel West Copy Share
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. — Cornel West Copy Share
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they… — Cornel West Copy Share
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share
I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand… — Cornel West Copy Share
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… — Cornel West Copy Share
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… — Cornel West Copy Share
You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit. — Cornel West Copy Share
Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots. — Cornel West Copy Share
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