Cornel West

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands. ↗

— Cornel West

#greed #impossible #into #street #translate

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. ↗

— Cornel West

#cheap #clever #distraction #gimmicks #mass

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. ↗

— Cornel West

#brother #great #i #love #something

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. ↗

— Cornel West

#obsessed #pleasure #power #property #selling

If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour. ↗

— Cornel West

#enough #happens #issues #need #now

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. ↗

— Cornel West

#brown #catastrophe #complex #discourse #ghettos