500 Quotes by Cornel West

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.