--- title: "24 White Quotes By Cornel West" description: "24 White quotes by Cornel West. Plus more from Cornel West and more White sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb6/cornel-west-708_hard_white-supremacy-is-so-deep-seated-that-i_459258.jpg" --- > [White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/white-supremacy-is-so-deep-seated-that-it-s-hard-to-see-it-eliminated/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb6/cornel-west-708_hard_white-supremacy-is-so-deep-seated-that-i_459258.jpg) > [Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/part-of-the-challenge-of-the-barack-obama-campaign-was-to-try-to/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adb/cornel-west-708_backlash_part-of-the-challenge-of-the-barack-obam_118898.jpg) > [I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-am-excited-to-have-a-black-president-because-white-supremacy-is/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0f/cornel-west-708_black_i-am-excited-to-have-a-black-president-b_1910136.jpg) > [Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/does-he-have-a-double-standard-for-black-critics-as-opposed-to-white/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06c/cornel-west-708_black_does-he-have-a-double-standard-for-black_2805388.jpg) > [ Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he \[Barack Obama\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/frank-rich-paul-krugman-maureen-dowd-a-whole-host-of-brilliant/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bea/cornel-west-708_all-kinds_frank-rich-paul-krugman-maureen-dowd-a-w_3152598.jpg) > [When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/when-it-comes-to-our-precious-poor-children-of-all-colors-maybe/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bc/cornel-west-708_black_when-it-comes-to-our-precious-poor-child_2791606.jpg) > [Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/martin-luther-king-jr-s-agenda-was-not-to-help-negroes-overcome/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fee/cornel-west-708_able_martin-luther-king-jr-s-agenda-was-not-t_1206753.jpg) > [The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-white-backlash-has-been-at-work-for-a-long-time-it-s-been-part/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1b/cornel-west-708_able_the-white-backlash-has-been-at-work-for_799899.jpg) > [Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/without-the-presence-of-black-people-in-america-european-americans/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/255/cornel-west-708_america_without-the-presence-of-black-people-in_1237968.jpg) > [There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/there-s-no-doubt-that-many-of-the-mainstream-white-institutions-tend/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6c/cornel-west-708_african-american_there-s-no-doubt-that-many-of-the-mainst_263760.jpg) > [For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/for-most-of-the-history-of-the-american-empire-government-has-been-a/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/cornel-west-708_american-empire_for-most-of-the-history-of-the-american_3095268.jpg) > [I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-don-t-draw-any-distinctions-between-forms-of-bigotry-or-forms-of/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a1/cornel-west-708_bigotry_i-don-t-draw-any-distinctions-between-fo_74270.jpg) > [All talks about legacies of white supremacy must be tied to empowering the lives of poor and working people as a whole.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/all-talks-about-legacies-of-white-supremacy-must-be-tied-to/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/cornel-west-708_agendas_all-talks-about-legacies-of-white-suprem_2318850.jpg) > [The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-need-of-black-conservatives-to-gain-the-respect-of-their-white/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fff/cornel-west-708_action_the-need-of-black-conservatives-to-gain_59562.jpg) > [Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/market-moralities-and-mentalities-fueled-by-economic-imperatives-to/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/cornel-west-708_clouds_market-moralities-and-mentalities-fueled_407707.jpg) > [ He\[Michael Jackson\] had a joy in being alive. There was a joy you felt of him on the stage and making us… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/he-michael-jackson-had-a-joy-in-being-alive-there-was-a-joy-you-felt/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4df/cornel-west-708_alive_he-michael-jackson-had-a-joy-in-being-al_777384.jpg) > [Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/those-who-came-to-the-united-states-didn-t-realize-they-were-white/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/cornel-west-708_abuse_those-who-came-to-the-united-states-didn_2285042.jpg) > [White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/white-supremacist-ideology-is-based-first-and-foremost-on-the/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df7/cornel-west-708_black_white-supremacist-ideology-is-based-firs_2898267.jpg) > [It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/it-s-clear-that-he-was-incredibly-courageous-in-his-critique-of-white/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ded/cornel-west-708_analysis_it-s-clear-that-he-was-incredibly-courag_2074070.jpg) > [I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-still-have-a-righteous-indignation-at-injustice-no-matter-what-form/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/798/cornel-west-708_arrogance_i-still-have-a-righteous-indignation-at_2979248.jpg) > [I would say you have to fight in the life of the mind as well as fight in the streets, as well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-would-say-you-have-to-fight-in-the-life-of-the-mind-as-well-as/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32f/cornel-west-708_congress_i-would-say-you-have-to-fight-in-the-lif_1721207.jpg) > [liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/liberty-which-means-resisting-all-forms-of-cultural-authoritarianism/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f2/cornel-west-708_accents_liberty-which-means-resisting-all-forms_1013369.jpg) > [My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/my-dear-brother-barack-obama-has-a-certain-fear-of-free-black-men-as/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a44/cornel-west-708_barack_my-dear-brother-barack-obama-has-a-certa_344393.jpg) > [ Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet \[Birth of a Nation,\] it's very white supremacist to the core in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/well-technologically-and-so-forth-it-s-a-breakthrough-and-yet-birth/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acc/cornel-west-708_birth_well-technologically-and-so-forth-it-s-a_714297.jpg) ## Other authors on White ## More by Cornel West > [There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/there-has-certainly-been-ugly-right-wing-hatred-targeting-barack-obama/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/what-is-accurately-portrayed-is-the-rich-humanity-not-just-of-martin/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-feel-as-if-i-have-been-blessed-to-undergo-a-transformation-from/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/like-king-we-need-to-put-on-our-cemetery-clothes-and-be-coffin-ready/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [ “You can't really move forward until you look back. \[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/you-can-t-really-move-forward-until-you-look-back-from-remaking/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/when-we-think-of-globalization-we-are-thinking-in-part-of-structures/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-challenge-artists-face-today-is-whether-to-be-an-underground/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-need-of-black-conservatives-to-gain-the-respect-of-their-white/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/for-me-musicians-are-poets-beethoven-describes-himself-as-a-poet-of/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/i-don-t-draw-any-distinctions-between-forms-of-bigotry-or-forms-of/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/barack-obama-has-domesticated-the-left-in-such-a-way-that-we-feel-as/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/larry-summers-i-think-he-had-a-long-history-of-arrogance-and-relative/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-greatest-gift-you-can-give-someone-is-the-gift-of-inspiration/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/you-can-see-it-in-terms-of-the-obsession-on-wall-street-with-not-just/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) > [Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/anybody-who-takes-martin-luther-king-seriously-has-got-to-go-beyond/) [Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornel-west/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/white/cornel-west/#itemlist", "name": "24 White Quotes By Cornel West", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. 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It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/the-white-backlash-has-been-at-work-for-a-long-time-it-s-been-part/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1b/cornel-west-708_able_the-white-backlash-has-been-at-work-for_799899.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1b/cornel-west-708_able_the-white-backlash-has-been-at-work-for_799899.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1b/cornel-west-708_able_the-white-backlash-has-been-at-work-for_799899.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The white backlash has been at work for a long time. 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And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/market-moralities-and-mentalities-fueled-by-economic-imperatives-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/cornel-west-708_clouds_market-moralities-and-mentalities-fueled_407707.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/cornel-west-708_clouds_market-moralities-and-mentalities-fueled_407707.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/cornel-west-708_clouds_market-moralities-and-mentalities-fueled_407707.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost…” — Cornel West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He[Michael Jackson] had a joy in being alive. 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This is a strange land.\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/those-who-came-to-the-united-states-didn-t-realize-they-were-white/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/cornel-west-708_abuse_those-who-came-to-the-united-states-didn_2285042.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/cornel-west-708_abuse_those-who-came-to-the-united-states-didn_2285042.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/cornel-west-708_abuse_those-who-came-to-the-united-states-didn_2285042.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. 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We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cornel West" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornel-west/liberty-which-means-resisting-all-forms-of-cultural-authoritarianism/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f2/cornel-west-708_accents_liberty-which-means-resisting-all-forms_1013369.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f2/cornel-west-708_accents_liberty-which-means-resisting-all-forms_1013369.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f2/cornel-west-708_accents_liberty-which-means-resisting-all-forms_1013369.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church…” — Cornel West", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 23, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. 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