Cornel West Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

  Cornel West

  Music, Needs, Jazz

• Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

  Cornel West

  Passion, Dark, Roots

• Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

  Cornel West

  Dark, Roots, Profound

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.17, Basic Books

• 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.

  Cornel West

  Language, Remember, My Family

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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