Author: Cornel West

Quotes

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

- Cornel West

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

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

- Cornel West

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

- Cornel West

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

- Cornel West

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

- Cornel West

Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.

Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.

- Cornel West

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