Haki Quotes & Sayings

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

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course. — Lucas Black

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system. — Lawrence Wright

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

Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

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

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts. — John Lasseter

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

Reality is not the same to the doer as it is to the sayer — Haki Madhubuti

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions. — Jack Welch

Any activity?" Robert asked.
"Not in the lasssht ten minutesh. Before that, very exshiting. I shaw Wolf Beta run by. There were vampiresh chassing her. She was yelling, 'Bill me, bloodshuckers! — Ilona Andrews

Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a "dead end". "Street culture," as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban reality is synonymous with survival at all costs. This world view is mostly negative, because it demands constant adjustment to circumstances that are often far beyond young people's control or understanding, such as economics, education, housing, employment, nutrition, law, and so forth. — Haki R. Madhubuti

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

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general ... They win battles, and they make me lucky. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive? — Haki R. Madhubuti

Come, come, Cap'n, be just," returned the other. "There's no call to be angry with me in earnest. I'm on'y a chara'ter in a sea story. I don't really exist. — Robert Louis Stevenson

To be black
is
to be
very-hot. — Haki R. Madhubuti

If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them. — John Kasich

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

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis. — Martin Jacques

Maybe he's an exotic dancer. He must be used to walking around with that monstrosity dangling like that. Stop looking at it. — Monica La Porta

Greece is internationally famous for three reasons. First it has more islands than people. Second, it used to be a part of Turkey. Third, its national hero, Alexander the Great, was a Yugoslavian. — Fatima Bhutto

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

...deep inside she wondered--feared--what it would take to break her. — Allison Brennan

A hakawati is a teller of tales, myths, and fables. A storyteller, and entertainer. A troubadour of sorts, someone who earns his keep by beguiling an audience with yarns. Like the word "hekayah" story, fable, news, hakawati is derived from the Lebanese word "haki", which means talk or conversation. This suggests that in Lebanese the mere act of talking is storytelling. — Rabih Alameddine

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

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

Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veil hangs over past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is. Where a battle has been fought, you will find nothing but the bones of men and beasts; where a battle is being fought, there are hearts beating. We will sit on a mound and muse, and not try to make these skeletons stand on their legs again. Does Nature remember, think you, that they were men, or not rather that they are bones? — Henry David Thoreau