500 Quotes by Cornel West

I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that’s fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love.

It’s no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

We need serious strategic and tactical thinking about how to create new models of leadership and forge the kind of persons to actualize these models.

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

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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.

This is what it is for Asians to be part of – support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it’s a matter of justice.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we’re true to ourselves.

If the churches don’t move, much of the community won’t move. We’ve got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.