For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. — 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… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way… — 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
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
We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say… — 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
Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine… — 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
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.' — Cornel West Copy Share
“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.” — Cornel West Copy Share
“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]” — Cornel West Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit. — Cornel West Copy Share
Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots. — Cornel West Copy Share
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