Haki R. Madhubuti Quotes

• 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

  Meaningful, Humble, Voice

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• One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world’s people, those of the West included, are taught to believe rather than to think. It’s much easier to believe than to think. People seldom think seriously about that which we are taught to believe, because we are all creatures of imitation and habit.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Mistake, People, Inner Strength

  Haki R. Madhubuti (1978). “Enemies: the clash of races”, Third World Pr

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

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Learning, Culture, Life Is

  Haki R. Madhubuti (1990). “Black men: obsolete, single, dangerous? : Afrikan American families in transition : essays in discovery, solution, and hope”, Third World Pr

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• 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

  Community, Black, Males

  Haki R. Madhubuti (1990). “Black men: obsolete, single, dangerous? : Afrikan American families in transition : essays in discovery, solution, and hope”, Third World Pr

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• It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Greatness, Doors, Numbers

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• 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

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• to be black
  is
  to be
  very-hot.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Black, Hot

  Haki R. Madhubuti (1996). “Ground Work”, Third World Pr

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• 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

  Mistake, Responsibility, Views

  Haki R. Madhubuti (2002). “Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men : Affirmations, Meditations, Readings, and Strategies”

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• 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

  Land, Roots, People

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• U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Way, Sometimes, Wonder

  Haki R. Madhubuti (1970). “We walk the way of the New World”, Broadside Pr

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