Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him! — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of 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
![“When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore witness. He left a committed life so that people would never forget the suffering of people that he was connected to. King was prophetic because he lived a committed life. Now he…” quote by Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/81a/cornel-west-708_bores_when-you-say-that-martin-luther-king-was_1290198.jpg)
