One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.
Cornel WestThere ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
Cornel WestI couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.
Cornel WestThe street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.
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