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Famous Cornel West Quotes
“To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.”
“The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.”
“You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.”
“We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.”
“We are who we are because somebody loved us.”
“When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.”
“There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.”
“To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.”
“To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.”
“To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.”
“Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.”
“I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.”