I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.
Interpretation
Cornel West expresses a deep spiritual and intellectual admiration for John Coltrane, paralleling it with his faith in Christianity.
In this quote, Cornel West highlights the profound influence that John Coltrane's music has had on him, equating his appreciation for the artist with his commitment to his Christian beliefs. This underscores the idea that music, much like faith, can serve as a source of inspiration, guidance, and transformation in one's life, reflecting the interconnectedness of art and spirituality.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the role of music in personal development.
King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.
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.
Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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