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But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.
— Cornel West
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To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.
— Walter Cronkite
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