None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)
Cornel WestYou can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.
Cornel WestI believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.
Cornel WestMartin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.
Cornel WestI have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.
Cornel West