Cornel West — "I'm a jazzman, a bluesman, a revolutionary Christian. I'm a mess, but I'm a beau…"

"I'm a bluesman in the academy. I sing the blues, but I do it with footnotes."

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

"We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness."

"We are living in an age of spiritual blackout, where the lights of truth, beauty, and goodness are being extinguished."

"If the only alternative to fascism we produce is a corporate-driven, milquetoast, neoliberal Democratic Party, fascism will come to America. Let us be very clear. It's like a Weimar America."