Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I was a gangster when I was young. I had a Robin Hood mentality and tended to always want to support the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The love of wisdom is a way of life; that is to say, it's a set of practices that have to do… — 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
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
You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able… — 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
