The Gifts of Black Folk, Part 2

Quotes from The Gifts of Black Folk, Part 2.

Cornel West

1. " Now that we are a nation that has the blues can we learn something from the blues people."

---Talking about terrorism now that Americans have been terrorized can the Americans learn something from the black people, who were accustomed to pain, suffering, and sorrow long ago.

2. "Sooner or later life is going to knock you to a wall and push you on your knees."

--- Have to face reality and death you can't avoid it all your life.

3. " Dialogue is lost in the younger generation."

--- From such an increase in technology!

4. "How deep is your love from others."----"dangerous force in all the world"

---Wow; thought provoking question. Are we willing to sacrife what we want to help another?

5. "World view rest on pudding."

---I liked how he brought pudding in the story.... World views are skewed, unstable, and changable.

6. " Let the monster perish."
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7. "Niggerization, Paideia"
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