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Nihilism is not overcome by arguments or analyses; it is tamed by love and care. Any disease of the soul must be conquered by a turning of one’s soul. (p19)

— Cornel West Race Matters (1993)

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You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom (2008)

Justice is what love looks like in public.

Brother West (2009)

In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.

To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom. (p172)

Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (2004)

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And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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