Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Cornel West quotes, Cornel West sayings, and Cornel West proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
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
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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
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You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth.Cornel West
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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.Cornel West
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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
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Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.Cornel West
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Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.Cornel West
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This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.Cornel West
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When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.Cornel West
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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.Cornel West
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When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.Cornel West
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You don't begin by dehumanizing those who are dehumanizing you, because it contributes to the cycle of dehumanization in the world.Cornel West
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If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.Cornel West
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Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.Cornel West
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Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.Cornel West
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There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.Cornel West
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Never forget that justice is what love looks like in publicCornel West
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There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.Cornel West
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There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.Cornel West
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It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.Cornel West
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Now, myself, I'm not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation to fight against apartheid.Cornel West
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To be human you must bear witness to justice.Cornel West
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There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.Cornel West
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Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.Cornel West
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We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty unless there is love, patience, persistence.Cornel West
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You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you but that you'll be able to love others.Cornel West
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We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty unless there is love, patience, persistence.Cornel West
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We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment unless there is loyalty unless there is love, patience, persistence.Cornel West
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To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.Cornel West