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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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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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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The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
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Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible.
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I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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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.
