The 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 WestTo be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
Cornel WestFor most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.
Cornel WestReelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
Cornel West