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Cornel West (27)

Birth:	2nd June, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Critic, Philosopher, Professor, Writer

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  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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Great, Something

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Quality, Strong

• Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in Addicted, Distraction

• Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in President, Care

• Black people have been working hard for decades.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in People, Decades

• 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.

  Cornel West

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government, Between, Relationship

• If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour.

  Cornel West

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, Poor, President

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

  Cornel West

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  Tags in Real, President, Excited

• Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in People, Working, Think

• It’s impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in Impossible, Translate

• I’m not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in Criticism, Believe, Person

• King’s response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in People, Fundamental, Response, Thinking

• 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

  Topics in History

  Tags in People, Ignorance, Arrogance

• Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that’s being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

  Cornel West

  Topics in Justice, Trust

  Tags in Pushed, Poor

• Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama admininstration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in People, Betrayal, Kind

• My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

  Cornel West

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brilliant, Culturally, Certain

• The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high – and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in Problem, Personal, Peace

• Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

  Cornel West

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  Tags in Moral, Invisible, Public

• The problem is we need much more moral content.

  Cornel West

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• We had a much deeper sense of community in ’67 than we do in ’97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it’s not as if ’67 was a time when things were so good.

  Cornel West

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Important, Community