Cornel West Quotes
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years 'Be successful, be successful, be successful' as opposed to 'Be great, be great, be great'. There's a qualitative difference.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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When Democrats concede the idea that some voters are not our voters, we shouldn't be surprised when those voters agree.
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I'll write songs wherever I am.
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There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years 'Be successful, be successful, be successful' as opposed to 'Be great, be great, be great'. There's a qualitative difference.
