Cornel West Quotes - Page 11

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• Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

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  Kings, Understanding, Dots

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• And so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially in the life of the mind; forever reading veraciously, writing, speaking, lecturing, trying to unsettle minds, trying to touch souls, trying to encourage and inspire, on the one hand, but also trying to unhouse and unnerve people, so that they have to reexamine themselves, society and the world on the others. There's tremendous joy in it.

  Cornel West

  Reading, Moving, Writing

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.

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  Language, Remember, My Family

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• I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

  Cornel West

  Passion, West, Sides

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• Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

  Cornel West

  Real, Soul, Steps

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

  Cornel West

  Kings, People, Communist

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

  Cornel West

  Blessed, Energy, Bills

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

  Cornel West

  Children, People, Priorities

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Principles, Manipulation

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton Chekhov, my favorite writer's master piece,Three Sisters,when she arrives reflecting on whether they're ever going to get to Moscow, memories of the death of their father, and she's in black, and she says I'm in mourning for the world, saying in part that I have a sad soul and a cheerful disposition.

  Cornel West

  Memories, Father, Practice

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Wall Street is stronger than ever.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Stronger, Streets

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a point there. I don't think that the words are necessarily nullified. It's just that that context is something you ought to be suspicious of.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Long, Quality

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

  Cornel West

  Reading, Magazines, Littles

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Once you begin to talk about wealth inequality, especially as it relates to corporations and big banks, or engage in an indictment of U.S. foreign policy, you are really getting at the center of a society that is very fearful of that kind of critique.

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  Corporations, Kind, Wealth

  "Cornel West on 'The Radical King'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. January 15, 2015.

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• Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.

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  Issues, People, Want

  "Cornel West on 'The Radical King'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. January 15, 2015.

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• Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

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  Rap, Hip Hop, Culture

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

  Cornel West

  White, Narrative, Birth

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• I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a radical love of humanity, and especially of poor and working people. And that radical love leads him to a radical analysis of power, domination and oppression. What's difficult is to situate him ideologically under a particular category.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Commitment, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

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  Philosophy, Understanding, Way

  Source: genius.com

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• Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, People, Hey

  "Cornel West INTERVIEW: Don’t Appoint Larry Summers As An Economic Adviser And Tell Me You’re Progressive", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2009.

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• We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

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  Community, Important, Way

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• For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

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  Exercise, Compassion, Justice

  Source: genius.com

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• This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America.

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  Book, Reading, Practice

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• Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

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  Struggle, Past, Alternatives

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• Context shapes who you are.

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  Shapes, Who You Are

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