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Cornel West Quotes

When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sad People Color Care You Wealth

While some politicians argue over whether to believe scientists' almost overwhelming consensus on climate change, the business sector is a believer and is wisely planning ahead.

Change Business Believe Planning

I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.

Cool Think Used Books Read Gore

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

Fun Cool Trying Find Now Want

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

Music Time Care Long Country

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Steven Strogatz

Tradition You Create New Act Which

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Music Time People Think Attention

I have - and you gotta believe this - hardly ever met anybody in Hollywood who's not nice. There are some people I don't like, but everybody has been very nice.

People Believe You Nice Hollywood

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Death Identity You Up Break Whole

My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.

Opportunity Science Me Cool Library

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

Society Think Violence Find Moral

I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn't have to share my parent's attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.

Life Great Childhood Child Parents

I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!

William Lashner

Going Dinners Author

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