“in this moment of orangutans, wolves, and scavengers, of high heat redesigning the north & south poles and the wanderings of new tribes in limousines, with the confirmations of liars, thieves, and get-over artists, in the wilderness of pennsylvania avenue,… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life. — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive? — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“where is the poetry of resistance, the poetry of honorable defiance unafraid of lies from career politicians and business men, not respectful of journalist who write official speak void of educated thought without double search or sub surface questions that war talk demands? where is the poetry of doubt and suspicion not in the service of the state, bishops and… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share
Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“breath, life after seven decades plus three years is a lot of breathing. seventy three years on this earth is a lot of taking in and giving out, is a life of coming from somewhere and for many a bunch of going nowhere. how do we celebrate a poet who has created music with words for over fifty years, who… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share
“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… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share
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… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“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… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
