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Cornel West Quotes - Page 11

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Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a point there. I don't think that the words are necessarily nullified. It's just that that

Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a point there. I don't think that the words are necessarily nullified. It's just that that context is something you ought to be suspicious of.

Thinking, Long, Quality

"Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

Reading, Magazines, Littles

"Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.

Evil, Radio, Objectification

"Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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

Blessed, Energy, Bills

"Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

I think in the end, you know, we're just addicted to oil. We've got to overcome that addiction, and we need some serious accountability of big oil, because big oil, like so much of big businesses, has just colonized our government, colonized the regulatory agencies so we can't impose any kind of accountability on them.

Thinking, Agency, Government

"Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

Integrity, Principles, Manipulation

"Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.

Issues, People, Want

"Cornel West on 'The Radical King'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. January 15, 2015.

And so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially in the life of the mind; forever reading veraciously, writing, speaking, lecturing, trying to unsettle minds, trying to touch souls, trying to encourage and inspire, on the one hand, but also trying to unhouse and unnerve people, so that they have to reexamine themselves, society and the world on the others. There's tremendous joy in it.

Reading, Moving, Writing

"Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

Children, People, Priorities

"Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.

Wings, Community, Black

Source: www.pbs.org

For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

Exercise, Compassion, Justice

Source: genius.com

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

Pain, Moving, America

Cornel West (2009). “Brother West”, p.4, Hay House, Inc

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

People, Soul, Needs

Source: www.pbs.org

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

Plato, Talking, Tone

Source: genius.com

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Philosopher, Lovers

Source: genius.com

There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces come in and empower your working people and your poor people. There are capitalist societies that do not have poverty. America needs to understand that.

America, People, Priorities

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Wise, Philosophy, Mean

Source: genius.com

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Philosophy, Thinking, Different

Source: genius.com

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

Source: genius.com

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

Philosophy, Understanding, Way

Source: genius.com

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

Truth Is, Fine

Source: genius.com

Optimism is evidence-based.

Optimism, Evidence

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

People, Suffering, Indifferent

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

White, Government, Might

Cornel West (2005). “Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism”, p.29, Penguin

Context shapes who you are.

Shapes, Who You Are

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