WEST, CORNEL : To engage in serious discussion of race in America, we must begin not with the problems of people of color, but with the flaws of American society-flaws rested in historic inequalities and stereotypes. (Cornel West, U.S. philosopher, political activist, social critic, and author, Born 1953)

WEST, CORNEL : The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. (Cornel West, U.S. philosopher, political activist, social critic, and author, Born 1953)