It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

- Cornel West

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

- Cornel West

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

- Cornel West

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

- Cornel West

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

- Cornel West

Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be bette…

- Cornel West

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

- Cornel West

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about…

- Cornel West

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.

- Cornel West