Cornel West Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

  Cornel West

  Soul, Murder, Form

• Education is soul crafting.

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  Educational, Soul

• I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

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  Fire, Soul, Intellectual

• As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. I'm on fire for education, a paideia in the deepest sense of paideia, trying to get young people to shift from the superficial to the substantial, the shift from the bling-bling to letting freedom reign in their minds and hearts and souls.

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  Christian, Heart, Fire

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

• I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.

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  Writing, Dark, Capacity To Love

• It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

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  Fighting, Dark, Soul

  "Cornel West: Truth". Interview with Astra Taylor, killingthebuddha.com. November 15, 2009.

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

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  Real, Soul, Steps

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

• Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

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  People, Soul, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

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  Reading, Moving, Writing

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

• Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.

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  Loneliness, Heart, Sadness

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

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  Memories, Father, Practice

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

• The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.

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  Numbers, People, Soul

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

• Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

  Cornel West

  Soul, Bitterness, Driven

  Source: genius.com

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