The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
Cornel WestI was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.
Cornel WestI recall coming across a line by the late Charles Tilly when he said, "The conditions for the possibility of social movements have been called into question in the twenty-first century." And I said to myself, my god, a society in history without social movements, for me, is very difficult to live in.
Cornel WestTry to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.
Cornel West