--- title: "14 Barack Quotes By Cornel West" description: "14 Barack quotes by Cornel West. Plus more from Cornel West and more Barack sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/898/cornel-west-708_barack_i-wished-the-president-barack-obama-were_319455.jpg" --- > [ I wished the president \[Barack Obama\] were more "Martin Luther King-like." ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-wished-the-president-barack-obama-were-more-martin-luther-king-like/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/898/cornel-west-708_barack_i-wished-the-president-barack-obama-were_319455.jpg) > [Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/part-of-the-challenge-of-the-barack-obama-campaign-was-to-try-to/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adb/cornel-west-708_backlash_part-of-the-challenge-of-the-barack-obam_118898.jpg) > [Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/barack-obama-has-domesticated-the-left-in-such-a-way-that-we-feel-as/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/144/cornel-west-708_accepting_barack-obama-has-domesticated-the-left-i_74989.jpg) > [ Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he \[Barack Obama\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/frank-rich-paul-krugman-maureen-dowd-a-whole-host-of-brilliant/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bea/cornel-west-708_all-kinds_frank-rich-paul-krugman-maureen-dowd-a-w_3152598.jpg) > [The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-white-backlash-has-been-at-work-for-a-long-time-it-s-been-part/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1b/cornel-west-708_able_the-white-backlash-has-been-at-work-for_799899.jpg) > [We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/we-look-at-the-legacy-of-frederick-douglass-and-ida-b-wells-and-ella/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23d/cornel-west-708_age_we-look-at-the-legacy-of-frederick-dougl_2704483.jpg) > [Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/going-all-the-way-back-to-jeremiah-wright-and-tavis-smiley-and-van/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/cornel-west-708_barack_going-all-the-way-back-to-jeremiah-wrigh_239109.jpg) > [ I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the \[Barack\] Obama administration to silence critics. We have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-just-don-t-want-the-fear-from-the-right-to-be-used-by-the-barack/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95c/cornel-west-708_administration_i-just-don-t-want-the-fear-from-the-righ_780814.jpg) > [It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/it-would-just-be-nice-if-we-had-leaders-in-washington-who-could/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/cornel-west-708_barack_it-would-just-be-nice-if-we-had-leaders_193287.jpg) > [My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/my-dear-brother-barack-obama-has-a-certain-fear-of-free-black-men-as/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a44/cornel-west-708_barack_my-dear-brother-barack-obama-has-a-certa_344393.jpg) > [ So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to \[Barack\] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice?… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/so-more-and-more-black-folk-tend-to-be-well-adjusted-to-barack-obama/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/cornel-west-708_barack_so-more-and-more-black-folk-tend-to-be-w_2283384.jpg) > [ I know my dear brother, President \[Barack\] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-know-my-dear-brother-president-barack-obama-has-a-bust-of-martin/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/cornel-west-708_afghanistan_i-know-my-dear-brother-president-barack_792715.jpg) > [I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-m-praying-for-barack-obama-to-stay-on-the-tightrope-because-i-want/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd3/cornel-west-708_barack_i-m-praying-for-barack-obama-to-stay-on_2391774.jpg) > [ We don't hear our president \[Barack Obama\] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/we-don-t-hear-our-president-barack-obama-talking-about-the-need-for/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/215/cornel-west-708_barack_we-don-t-hear-our-president-barack-obama_1713007.jpg) ## Other authors on Barack ## More by Cornel West > [There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/there-has-certainly-been-ugly-right-wing-hatred-targeting-barack-obama/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/what-is-accurately-portrayed-is-the-rich-humanity-not-just-of-martin/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-feel-as-if-i-have-been-blessed-to-undergo-a-transformation-from/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/like-king-we-need-to-put-on-our-cemetery-clothes-and-be-coffin-ready/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [ “You can't really move forward until you look back. \[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/you-can-t-really-move-forward-until-you-look-back-from-remaking/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/when-we-think-of-globalization-we-are-thinking-in-part-of-structures/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-challenge-artists-face-today-is-whether-to-be-an-underground/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-need-of-black-conservatives-to-gain-the-respect-of-their-white/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/for-me-musicians-are-poets-beethoven-describes-himself-as-a-poet-of/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-don-t-draw-any-distinctions-between-forms-of-bigotry-or-forms-of/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/barack-obama-has-domesticated-the-left-in-such-a-way-that-we-feel-as/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/larry-summers-i-think-he-had-a-long-history-of-arrogance-and-relative/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-greatest-gift-you-can-give-someone-is-the-gift-of-inspiration/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/you-can-see-it-in-terms-of-the-obsession-on-wall-street-with-not-just/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/anybody-who-takes-martin-luther-king-seriously-has-got-to-go-beyond/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barack/cornel-west/#itemlist", "name": "14 Barack Quotes By Cornel West", 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We're going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/going-all-the-way-back-to-jeremiah-wright-and-tavis-smiley-and-van/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/cornel-west-708_barack_going-all-the-way-back-to-jeremiah-wrigh_239109.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/cornel-west-708_barack_going-all-the-way-back-to-jeremiah-wrigh_239109.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/cornel-west-708_barack_going-all-the-way-back-to-jeremiah-wrigh_239109.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe…” — Cornel West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-just-don-t-want-the-fear-from-the-right-to-be-used-by-the-barack/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95c/cornel-west-708_administration_i-just-don-t-want-the-fear-from-the-righ_780814.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95c/cornel-west-708_administration_i-just-don-t-want-the-fear-from-the-righ_780814.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95c/cornel-west-708_administration_i-just-don-t-want-the-fear-from-the-righ_780814.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence…” — Cornel West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/it-would-just-be-nice-if-we-had-leaders-in-washington-who-could/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/cornel-west-708_barack_it-would-just-be-nice-if-we-had-leaders_193287.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/cornel-west-708_barack_it-would-just-be-nice-if-we-had-leaders_193287.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/cornel-west-708_barack_it-would-just-be-nice-if-we-had-leaders_193287.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of…” — Cornel West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/my-dear-brother-barack-obama-has-a-certain-fear-of-free-black-men-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a44/cornel-west-708_barack_my-dear-brother-barack-obama-has-a-certa_344393.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a44/cornel-west-708_barack_my-dear-brother-barack-obama-has-a-certa_344393.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a44/cornel-west-708_barack_my-dear-brother-barack-obama-has-a-certa_344393.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a…” — Cornel West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/so-more-and-more-black-folk-tend-to-be-well-adjusted-to-barack-obama/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/cornel-west-708_barack_so-more-and-more-black-folk-tend-to-be-w_2283384.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/cornel-west-708_barack_so-more-and-more-black-folk-tend-to-be-w_2283384.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/cornel-west-708_barack_so-more-and-more-black-folk-tend-to-be-w_2283384.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean…” — Cornel West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the question is are is he going to be true to who that Martin Luther King, Jr., actually is? King was concerned about what? The poor. He was concerned about working people. He was concerned about quality jobs. He was concerned about quality housing. He was concerned about precious babies in Vietnam, the way we ought to be concerned about precious babies in Afghanistan and precious babies in Tel Aviv and precious babies in Gaza.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-know-my-dear-brother-president-barack-obama-has-a-bust-of-martin/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/cornel-west-708_afghanistan_i-know-my-dear-brother-president-barack_792715.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/cornel-west-708_afghanistan_i-know-my-dear-brother-president-barack_792715.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/cornel-west-708_afghanistan_i-know-my-dear-brother-president-barack_792715.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office…” — Cornel West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down I want to ensure they don't lie about him. I'm sure they don't demonize him, and too much of that is going on. So I don't want my critiques to be in any way confused with the right-wing critiques, even though I'll fight for the right wing to be wrong in that regard.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-m-praying-for-barack-obama-to-stay-on-the-tightrope-because-i-want/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd3/cornel-west-708_barack_i-m-praying-for-barack-obama-to-stay-on_2391774.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd3/cornel-west-708_barack_i-m-praying-for-barack-obama-to-stay-on_2391774.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd3/cornel-west-708_barack_i-m-praying-for-barack-obama-to-stay-on_2391774.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. 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