You'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 WestThere is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.
Cornel WestAnd so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially in the life of the mind; forever reading veraciously, writing, speaking, lecturing, trying to unsettle minds, trying to touch souls, trying to encourage and inspire, on the one hand, but also trying to unhouse and unnerve people, so that they have to reexamine themselves, society and the world on the others. There's tremendous joy in it.
Cornel WestI've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.
Cornel West