Haki Quotes

#1. A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Russell Baker

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Haki Madhubuti

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

Haki R. Madhubuti

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.

Kiera Cass

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

Haki R. Madhubuti

#10. I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture - better to smash the borders and look for interesting and important stuff from many different forms of storytelling.

Toni Jerrman

#11. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.

Steve Biddulph

#12. 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

#13. It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

Aron Nimzowitsch

#14. 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

#15. The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.

Lee J. Cobb

#16. Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

Marianne Williamson

#17. Miss Brinklow, however, was not yet to be sidetracked. "What do the lamas do?" she continued.
"They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom."
"But that isn't doing anything."
"Then, madam, they do nothing.

James Hilton

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

Haki R. Madhubuti

#19. We are wonderful souls in a wondrous world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. 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