As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. I'm on fire for education, a paideia in the deepest sense of paideia, trying to get young people to shift from the superficial to the substantial, the shift from the bling-bling to letting freedom reign in their minds and hearts and souls.
Cornel WestMartin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.
Cornel WestI think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.
Cornel West