Cornel West Race Matters Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW! — Vivian Stanshall

the ratio of time spent reading vs. writing is well over 10:1. — Robert C. Martin

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm. — Elliott Carter

White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples. — Cornel West

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts — Mary Pope Osborne

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business. — John Wooden

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107). — Cornel West

I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty Years' War. If you don't make the connection between memories of past atrocities and the present, there isn't any point to it. There are plenty of horrible things happening today in Germany and in the rest of the world. — Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you. — Samuel Snoek-Brown