Best Cornel West Quotations
- We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people. Democratic
- 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 forth. Arrogance
- We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're… Concerned
- I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to… Better
- White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to… Based
- The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better… Allow
- Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions… Archeology
- Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. Categories
- In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental… Alternatives
- The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply… Action
- You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people. Funny
- To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the… Accept
- Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And… Across
- To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing,… Christian
- Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do… Courage
- liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We… Accent
- We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. Commitment
- Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of… Aesthetic
- I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal… Addiction
- I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope. Hope
- Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public Forget
- I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The… America
- When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country." - Cornel… Country
- I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire. Blues
- None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to… Alone
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