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Cornel West Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: June 2, 1953

Topics

Change You Social Change Difference

In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

Matthew Desmond

Way Poor Harder Than Themselves

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

Angelina Jolie

Walking Problem Down Street Boyish

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Robert Frost

Teacher You Jump Kind Skies Two

I remember my dad asking me one time, and it's something that has always stuck with me: 'Why not you, Russ?' You know, why not me? Why not me in the Super Bowl?

Russell Wilson

Time Me Remember You Know Why

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language Behavior Unknown System

When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.

Don McCullin

Portrait You Black-And-White Talk

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

Chris Robinson

Me Rest You Go Said Nothing

When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.

Colin Kaepernick

Music Kind Bus Playing Off Still

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

William Graham Sumner

Childhood Man Practice Never Economy

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Susan Sontag

Truth Lie Balance Truth Is May

To have the ability to destroy all and not to do it was one of the hard tests humanity passed - but only just - in the middle of the twentieth century.

Peter Abrahams

Humanity Hard Ability Destroy Middle

I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn't consume much time at all.

Tim Ferriss

Time Finance Fun Legacy Pretty