Haki R. Madhubuti Quotes

#1. Ideas and their creators run the world ... one's place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person "freely" accepts and uses.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#2. To be black
is
to be
very-hot.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#3. People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#4. They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#5. Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#6. Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#7. Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#8. U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

Haki R. Madhubuti

#9. To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#10. To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

Haki R. Madhubuti