The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this… — 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… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in… — 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
The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the… — 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
Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I would say you have to fight in the life of the mind as well as fight in the streets, as well… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to… — 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
All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics? — 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 still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama]… — 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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