Sunday, September 16, 2007

Quotes from Cornel West, Princeton University: "The Gifts of Black Folk on the Age of Terrorism - Part 2"

21:59 "...those three gifts: socratic questioning on the one hand, prophetic witness for love and justice on the other, and then the tragic comic hope that dark laughter that hides and conceals tears and psychic scars, and personal bruises, antological wounds. I say it is a blessing to be here at Princeton to try to hold up this blood-stained banner."


27:24 "...and that's why anytime we talk about race in America we're really talking about both a vicious legacy of white supremacy but also various forms of resilience and resistance to that it is a balance of forces, though often an imblance of forces, often an assymetric relation of power but is not an absract category, their is concrete human beings who are suffering, and shuddering, and struggling to the best of their ability, some falling on their face, some even choosing to be gangsters."


51:31 "Please, as you pursue your prosperity, don't forget magnaminity - greatness of character."

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