Quotes About Cornel West

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Songs: What if for the next three hundred years, we sang about love and justice (which has been defined by philosopher Cornel West as "what love looks like in public") as much as we've sung about sin and forgiveness over the last three hundred years? Imagine if every week God were praised and worshipped above all as the source and epitome of love.

The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy.