I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives.
Cornel WestYou can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.
Cornel WestTo be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
Cornel WestWe need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.
Cornel West