Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

It’s only Christian to be chivalrous to your enemies.

He knew time and day of week and wondered when such scraps of data would begin to feel disposable.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

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.

To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

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.

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

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