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Famous Cornel West Quotes
“If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.”
“If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.”
“As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.”
“Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.”
“I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.”
“When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.”
“It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering”
“confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder”
“The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.”
“There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.”
“The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.”
“I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.”