Cornel West Quotes

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• Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to…
• Education is soul crafting.
• As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
• I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms.…
• I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students,…
• It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
• Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
• Black people have been working hard for decades.
• To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately…
• We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far.…
• It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts…
• You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned…
• We're learning lessons from Africa. And the lesson that we need to learn is, how do we straighten our backs up in the face of…
• 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 that.
• Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
• We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and…
• Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.
• The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama…
• John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make…
• Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The…

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