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On Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 10:52:29 AM UTC-4, LowRider44M wrote:
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“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West
“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
― Cornel West
“The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than
you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient
with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair
to have the last word.”
― Cornel West
“I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.”
― Cornel West
“Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.”
― Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader
“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”
― Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader
“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it.
In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.”
“Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of
our scream and the celestial
heights of our silence. ”
“In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend
people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”
― Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader
“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”
― Cornell West
“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the
something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.”
― Cornel West
“To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which
shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the
'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.”
― Cornel West
“My aim is not to provide excuses for black behavior or to absolve blacks of personal responsibility. But when the new black conservatives accent black behavior and responsibility in such a way that the cultural realities of black people are ignored,
they are playing a deceptive and dangerous intellectual game with the lives and
fortunes of disadvantaged people. We indeed must criticize and condemn immoral acts of black people, but we must do so cognizant of the circumstances into which people are
born and under which they live. By overlooking these circumstances, the new black conservatives fall into the trap of blaming black poor people for their predicament. It is imperative to steer a course between the Scylla of environmental determinism and
the Charybdis of a blaming-the-victims perspective.
”
― Cornel West, Race Matters
“Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)”
― Cornel West, Race Matters
“I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.”
“In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth
and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a
crucial crossroad in the
history of this nation--and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately. Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will
tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.”
― Cornel West, Race Matters
“Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as
beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.”
― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
“White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of
black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them
that their
bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is
less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.”
― Cornel West
“I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very
much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. ”
― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
“Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged
in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)”
― Cornel West, Race Matters
“To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of
uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to
sustain and increase the creative tension with the group--a tension that yields
higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project. This
kind of critical and democratic sensibility flies in the face of any policing of borders and
boundaries of "blackness", "maleness", "femaleness", or "whiteness".”
― Cornel West, Race Matters
“We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will
one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.”
― Cornel West
“None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a
positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)”
― Cornel West, Race Matters
“You can't really move forward until you look back.
[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]”
― Cornel West
“Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a
profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with
icy cynicism and
paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House
lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.”
― Cornel West, Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle”
― Cornel West, The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
“It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy
than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!”
― Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire
“liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it
from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream
white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in
all their
forms.”
― Cornel West
“I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some
heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The
blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.”
― Cornel West, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
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