Haki 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. Happiness is created and not found, it's a state of mind and in its best form, it stands independent of life circumstances.

Jaeda DeWalt

#4. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Oliver Goldsmith

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Haki R. Madhubuti

#8. Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.

Tupac Shakur

#9. The day I get my license will be the day you get run over by a car

Anh Nguyen

#10. When the Eternal bows the skies
To visit earthly things,
With scorn divine he turns his eyes
From towers of haughty kings.
He bids his awful chariot roll
Far downward from the skies,
To visit every humble soul,
With pleasure in his eyes.

Isaac Watts

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Haki R. Madhubuti

#14. Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

Anne Frank

#15. Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer

Haki Madhubuti

#16. Often, the scripts that we write that foretell our own doom are completely contrary to the scripts that God has written for us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. 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

#18. I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

Kurt Cobain

#19. 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

#20. Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

Michael Arrington