500 Quotes by Cornel West

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

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)

American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

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

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Education is soul crafting.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.