As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may… — 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
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