If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the… — 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
If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The right wing can use anything, and we have to make it very clear and I make it very clear that my… — 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
