Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it! — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best… — 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
There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama. — 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 Image
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.' — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
