Been Quote by Cornel West Download Open image “Black people have been working hard for decades.” — Cornel West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Been Black Black people Decades Hard People Work Working Working hard
Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
As Black women, we know that there's an expectation of us to fail in some way. So we have to work a thousand times… — Myha'la Copy Share Image
As a Black woman you do have to work harder for everything. The world is not going to hand you things. — Jaz Sinclair Copy Share Image
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I'm all about black folks working together and progressing together. — Lamman Rucker Copy Share Image
A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the black community has a lot to work on internally with what they deem successful. — Janet Hubert Copy Share Image
A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of course that… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When someone is in 'the struggle,' which many of our black communities are in, they are living with a lack of educational facilities, high… — Kenny Smith 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
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
