Becoming a Love Warrior w/ Dr. Cornel West

The Laverne Cox Show

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Laverne talks with Dr. Cornel West, renowned intellectual and political activist, about what it means to live in the spirit and be a Love Warrior.

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0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show, a production of Shondaland Audio in
0:35.0	partnership with IHeart Radio.
0:45.3	What would it be like if people were able to, not just come together with kumbaya, but most importantly, be able to engage in struggle to preserve the possibility
0:51.3	of treating others in a humane and human way.
0:55.5	See, that's that's breakdance material.
0:58.2	That's hallelujah material.
1:00.1	That gets a brother fighter.
1:02.0	Make MC Hemmer look like a Boy Scout.
1:04.9	Breakdancing in the name of joy and hope and justice and a deep, deep love.
1:21.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Laverne Cox Show.
1:25.3	I'm Laverne Cox.
1:31.3	I have quoted Cornell West famous proclamation that justice is what love looks like in public so many times I have seen his words attributed to me.
1:38.8	Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private, West goes on to say.
1:47.6	That feels like the truth to me. I discovered Cornell West work through my college obsession with
1:54.1	Bell Hooks. They published a book together in 1991 called Breaking Bread Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. Cornel West is certainly one of America's
2:04.1	greatest orators. When I started my college tour in 2013, I obsessively studied West. West is a professor, a
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