Madhubuti 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

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

Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time — Adam Lambert

God invites us today to live a great story with Him. — Lysa TerKeurst

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

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

I do a lot of research for my books. I can't possibly know all the things I write about and I love learning new things. I spend hours and hours doing research in books, libraries and online. [Once] I traveled to the reservation to get the settings and the flavor of the place down right. — Linda Conrad

Anyone who equates freedom with madness is mad themselves. — Marty Rubin

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

We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. — Marcel Proust

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

No one wants to wife a hoodrat who would rather spend the money over helping him bring it in. — Cassie

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

The spray, the fog, the night. A moisture that seeps into your bones with the boldness of a rooting weed. Dark water, turbid. Thousands of feet of abyss beneath the ship and somewhere, below, monsters. — Manel Loureiro

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

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure. — Khaled Abou El Fadl

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

See, that's the thing about L.A. - When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know. — Kris Kidd

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

From flophouse bed
To poorhouse bread,
all outhouse sorrow:
I thee wed. — Roman Payne

Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest. — Jill Lepore

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

Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose. — Steve Maraboli

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

A tapered diamond or bur will impart an inclination of 2 to 3 degrees to any surface it cuts if the shank of the instrument is held parallel to the intended path of insertion of the preparation. Two opposing surfaces, each with a 3-degree inclination, would give the preparation a 6-degree taper. — Herbert T. Shillingburg Jr.

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