Madhubuti Quotes

#1. Here's how man thinks: If no one's done it, why should I try? It's a waste of my time; but if he's done it, I can do it better.

Nabil N. Jamal

#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. With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

Barack Obama

#9. You don't always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

Ian Somerhalder

#10. The less said about that morning's ride, the better. I would have been uncomfortable even if I'd been riding with Branaric, for my leg ached steadily from the jarring of the horse's pace. To be riding along in the clasp of an enemy just made my spirits feel the worse.

Sherwood Smith

#11. 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

#12. I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#13. Passion is power,
And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare
Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.

William Vaughn Moody

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

Haki R. Madhubuti

#15. 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

#16. Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

George Savile

#17. When you push yourself beyond limits, you discover inner reserves, which you never thought existed earlier.

Manoj Arora

#18. 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

#19. If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

Anna Maxted

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

Haki R. Madhubuti