What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
He[Michael Jackson] had a joy in being alive. There was a joy you felt of him on the stage and making us… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really… — 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
To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings… — 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
So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice?… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the… — 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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