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Cornel West Quotes

American - Educator | June 2, 1953 -

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

I Am Black White President Real

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

Relationship Government Questions

Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.

Fire Soul Wall Kind Against Burning

I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.

Christian Old Just Like Disciple

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

Integrity Honesty Craft Mastery Take

There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama.

Ugly Hatred Been Barack Obama Obama

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts.

Love Learning Live Music Passion

It's never a question of skin pigmentation. It's never a question of just culture or sexual orientation or civilization. It's what kind of human being you're going to choose to be from your mama's womb to the tomb and what kind of legacy will you leave.

Culture Legacy You Choose Skin Kind

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

Responsibility Action Personal Always

Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.

Mind Free Black Consequences Person

Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.

Peace Man War King Against Radical

Now, myself, I'm not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation to fight against apartheid.

Myself Fight War Believe Now Spirit

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