The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
Cornel WestThe conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.
Cornel WestYou'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