Cornel West Soul Quotations

The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

Education is soul crafting.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.