Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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
It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There's a difference between just gaining access to a commodity as opposed to a spirit that allows us to live a life… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore… — 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
And so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's… — 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
The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic… — 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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