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• We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

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  Justice, Buying, Love And Trust

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

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• The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

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  People, Political, Important

  "Dr. Cornel West’s Prognosis for the Country’s Prospects". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.

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  Mean, Everyday, Feels

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

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• There's a difference between just gaining access to a commodity as opposed to a spirit that allows us to live a life of love and justice, that when crisis and catastrophe hits you, that the biggest mansion in the world is not going to help you. If you don't have anybody who loves you, if you don't have any God who cares for you, that you're not going to have what it takes to move to the next stage in your life.

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  Love You, Moving, Differences

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

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  Black, Church, World

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

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  Wise, Men, Ideas

  Cornel West (1999). “The Cornel West Reader”, p.19, Basic Books

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• Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

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  Disappointment, Betrayal, People

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• You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.

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  Government, Egypt, Way

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• Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

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  Trying, Being True, Grows

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

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

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  Soul, Murder, Form

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• The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

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  Art, Challenges, Genius

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2011

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• I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.

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  Kings, Spring, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

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  Blessed, California, Inevitability Of Death

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

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• Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life.

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  Growing Up, Blue, Black

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• It's just that the churches have been sleeping for a long time. A lot of people argue that the churches are even dead. I don't believe they're dead, but they've been sleeping, but they, I hope, will wake up, and that's one of my tasks is to make sure they wake up as much as they do before I die.

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  Believe, Sleep, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren and the quality of service to those who are catching hell. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say America has had great moments, but I wouldn't call it a great nation. I don't think there have been any great nations in the history of the world, because in every nation you find poor people being subjugated. So, I see the term "great nation" as a contradiction, as an oxymoron.

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  Christian, Believe, Greatness

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• The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.

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  Humility, Animal, Talking

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• I think that in a certain sense, we're concerned about the same issues. How do you accent the progressive, the prophetic, those things that are critical of all forms of injustice, all forms of bigotry, all forms of dehumanizing other people, and yet still allow for a certain kind of flow, linguistic flow, certain kinds of melodies and harmonies in the samplings that take place?

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  Thinking, Issues, People

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• I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

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  Loneliness, Sadness, Sacrifice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

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  Creativity, Creative, Priorities

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• Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

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  Spiritual, Addiction, Suffering

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• I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the face of Nazis, in the face of apartheid, that I would have joined those armies. But that's the last, last resort.

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  War, Army, Thinking

  Source: genius.com

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• The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

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  Ends, Models

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

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• Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

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  Color, President, Looks

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• For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

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  White, Government, Might

  Cornel West (2005). “Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism”, p.29, Penguin

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