Cornel West Quotes

I love energy and people; gosh I love people even when they got on my nerves.

My passion in life isn't politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.

It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books... to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.

I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

I really enjoy learning about other people and I'm really curious about other people.

My favorite sign here says, "I care about you." In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say, "Let them die," that is a deeply radical statement.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

I hate people.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.

When people do get to see each other and know each other more - you'll see it in New York, all these cultures are together - other cultures become far less scary and less foreign to you.

I get along with people very easily.

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

I always think if you speak to someone in their second language, you speak to their head. If you speak in their first, you speak to their heart. I've always tried to let players see that.

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.