Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to… — 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
The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of… — 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
The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love… — 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
“Nihilism is a disease of the soul. It can never be completely cured, and there is always the possibility of relapse. There… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make… — 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
I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving… — 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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