Ti West Quotes
For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.
I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.
We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.
There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.
There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.
The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.
I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.
If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.
Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.
Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.
Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.
American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.
I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.
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.
Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
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.
And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.
The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.
I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.
Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.
I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.
Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.
I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
