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• The right wing can use anything, and we have to make it very clear and I make it very clear that my love for the president in terms of protecting him and respecting him but also correcting, now all three of those are crucial, and if I can do all three, then the right wing can use it whatever they want, and I'm just clear where I stand, over against them but also critical when the president leans toward the strong, rather than the weak.

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  Strong, Wings, President

  "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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• 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.

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  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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.

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  Kings, Always Trying, People

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• You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

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  Wall, Greed, Obsession

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

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• The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

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  Children, People, Action

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

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• If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.

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  Moving, Doors, Community

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• Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial book is the most powerful and profound treatment of Ellison's undeniable artistic genius, deep personal flaws, and controversial political evolution. And he reveals an Ellison unbeknownst to all of us. From now on, all serious scholarship on Ellison must begin with Rampersad's instant and inimitable classic in literary biography.

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  Powerful, Book, Class

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• We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

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  Strong, Names, People

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• I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

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  Believe, Black, Criticism

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• It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

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  People, Suffering, Indifferent

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• Truth is fine. Absolutely.

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  Truth Is, Fine

  Source: genius.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

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• There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

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• I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Different

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• Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

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  Wise, Philosophy, Mean

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• Context shapes who you are.

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  Shapes, Who You Are

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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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• Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!

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  Book, People, Missing

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• I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

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  Pain, Moving, America

  Cornel West (2009). “Brother West”, p.4, Hay House, Inc

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• I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

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  Real, White, Black

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• Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

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  Addiction, Seductive, Black History

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• It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.

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  Brother, Nice, Leader

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