Cornel West

This notion that we had it all, or ever will have it all, that's got to go, you got to push it to the side. And once you push all that to the side then it tends to evacuate the language of disappointment and the language of failure. And then you say ok, Well how much have we done, how've we been able to do it, can we do more? In certain situations you can't do more. It's like trying to break dance at 75: you can't do it anymore. You were a master at 16, it's over! You can't make love at 80 the way you did when you were 20... So what? Shit... time is real.