Cornel West Quotes

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

Cornel West

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

EducationBestQualityStrongBlack

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

Jennifer Granholm

MomAmericanPlacePresidentKid

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

John Cho

PeopleImmigrantWatchingLearned

My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.

John Lydon

LifeGoodGreatChallengeThinkSex

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.

Andy Gibb

LoveMeWorldDesertIslandBear

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.

Amy Hempel

PeopleStoryFirstWhateverHappened

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

Stephanie Herseth

HopeCongressServingSouth Dakota

This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals either are or are not 'doing.'

Robin DiAngelo

TimeRacismThinkDoingOverOnly

I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em.

Mike Trout

FunMeReachOverOutTake

'The Lady' is an incredible love story about how a family was cut off from each other, about sacrifice, about the ability to put the needs of million of people before your own.

Michelle Yeoh

FamilyLoveSacrificePeopleStory

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

Molly Shannon

CollegeActorDramaticHeActually

Consumers expect a safe, convenient, and affordable globalised payment platform.

Lucy Peng

SafeExpectPaymentConsumers

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Condoleezza Rice

TeacherRespectGreatMomPoorNeed

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Cornel West