America Quote by Cornel West Download Open image “The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual.” — Cornel West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Church Culture Religion
Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“We are not going through an "economy crisis"; we are going through a "spiritual transition". On a deeper level, the collective conscious of humanity… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“There is no Black person here who can afford to wait to be led into positive action for survival. Each one of us must… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The Misery Merchants tell us, for example, that most blacks are poor. In fact, only one in four black families is poor, and only… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The idea of capitalism and the relation that black people especially have to capitalism is something that's interesting to us. — Stephen Glover Copy Share Image
I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The problem of racial difference in America - and in modern life more broadly - is always presented as an economic, political, biological or… — Thomas Chatterton Williams 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
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
