Cornel West

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June 02, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, The United States

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http://www.cornelwest.com

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Cornel Ronald West is an American scholar and public intellectual. Formerly at Harvard University, West is currently a professor of Religion at Princeton. West says his intellectual contributions draw from such diverse traditions as the African American Baptist Church, Marxism, pragmatism, transcendentalism, and Anton Chekhov.

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Books by Cornel West

Average rating: 3.99 · 4,186 ratings · 405 reviews · 62 distinct works

	Race Matters 3.98 avg rating — 1,954 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism 3.85 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Cornel West Reader 4.22 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir by Cornel West, David Ritz 4.01 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom 4.06 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America 3.98 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Prophesy Deliverance! 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Restoring Hope by Cornel West, Kelvin Shawn Sealey (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”
― Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

tags: commitment , loyalty , relationships

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“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

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“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”
― Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader

tags: idealist , ideas , letters , love , wise

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