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There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie. — Cornel West

You can't move forward until you look back. — Cornel West

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

You're trying to just leave the world a little better. — Cornel West

While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky. — Cornel Wilde

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale. — Claire Danes

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. — Cornel West

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all. — Cornel West

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants. — Cornel West

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth — Cornel West

I am who I am because somebody loved me. — Dr. Cornel West

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed. — Cornel West

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up. — Cornel Wilde

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. — Cornel West

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth. — Cornel West

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real. — Cornel West

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop. — Cornel West

When black America is on the move, America is on the move. — Cornel West

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet. — Cornel Wilde

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another. — Cornel Wilde

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102) — Cornel West

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive. — Cornel West

As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear. — Cornel West

We need serious strategic and tactical thinking about how to create new models of leadership and forge the kind of persons to actualize these models. — Cornel West

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. — Cornel West

You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust. — Cornel West

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. — Cornel West

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. — Cornel West

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives. — Cornel West

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love. — Cornel West

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people. — Cornel West

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. — Cornel West

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

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama. — Cornel Wilde

To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom. — Cornel West

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

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like." — Cornel West

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

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom. — Cornel West

Context shapes who you are. — Cornel West

I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years, I don't think it's a crime against humanity they just ought to quit doing it, god damn it. — Cornel West

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism
the idolatry of the 20th century. — Cornel West

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom. — Cornel West

Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope. — Cornel West

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom. — Cornel West

If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go. — Cornel West

I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard. — Cornel West

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. — Cornel West

To be human you must bear witness to justice. — Cornel West

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. — Cornel West

Truth is fine. Absolutely. — Cornel West

Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary. — Cornel West

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling. — Cornel West

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against. — Cornel West

You can't really move forward until you look back.
[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University] — Cornel West

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

King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America - even though the white press attempted to do so. — Cornel West

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

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people. — Cornel West

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad. — Cornel Wilde

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness. — Cornel West

I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope. — Cornel West

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. — Cornel West

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

We are who we are because somebody loved us. — Cornel West

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices. — Cornel West

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being. — Cornel West

Education is soul crafting. — Cornel West

The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. — Cornel West

Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle. — Cornel West

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period. — Cornel West

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. — Cornel West

The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show. — Cornel West

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence. — Cornel West

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense. — Cornel West

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth — Cornel West

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

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain. — Cornel West

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. — Cornel West

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice. — Cornel West

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

The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for. — Cornel West

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands. — Cornel West

If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast. — Christopher Hitchens

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance. — Cornel West

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. — Cornel West

Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him ... I refuse to accept that. — Cornel West

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions. — Cornel West

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist. — Cornel West

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle — Cornel West

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. — Cornel West

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil. — Cornel West

Confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder — Cornel West

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well. — Cornel West

White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back. — Cornel West

All you have is a gift a to give. — Cornel West

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose. — Cornel West

And 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. — Cornel West

You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others. — Cornel West

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself. — Cornel West