Best Cornel West Quotes
- The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. Capacity
- He who learns death unlearns slavery. Death
- We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants. Alive
- To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love. Best
- Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love. Addiction
- The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. Aren
- When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection.… Abuse
- You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself. Healing
- We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. Kindness
- The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. Art
- As long as you're scared you're on the plantation. Inspirational
- We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions. Bear
- Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth Inspirational
- You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others. Able
- We are who we are because somebody loved us. Funny
- American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on… American
- When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. Begin
- A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. Better
- There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie. Bigger
- To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word. Allow
- A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. Achieved
- You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You… Believe
- Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. Beyond
- Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. Disease
- To be human you must bear witness to justice. Bear
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