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
So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general,… — 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
I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear. — 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
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
