Cornel West Quotes about Morning

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To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

Cornel West

Morning, Tasks, Faces

Cornel West (2011). “Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, a Memoir”, p.341, ReadHowYouWant.com

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

Cornel West

Morning, Struggle, Recovery

Bell Hooks, Cornel West (1991). “Breaking bread: insurgent Black intellectual life”, South End Pr

I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

Cornel West

Morning, Struggle, Recovery

bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.125, Taylor & Francis