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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
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
I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.
— 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
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
— Cornel West
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
— 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
There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
— 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
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— Cornel West
A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.
— Cornel West
Context shapes who you are.
— 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
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
To be human you must bear witness to justice.
— Cornel West
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
— 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
King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America - even though the white press attempted to do so.
— 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
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
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
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
If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.
— Christopher Hitchens
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
— 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
