Haki R. Madhubuti

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

— Haki R. Madhubuti

To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us…

— 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…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

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

— Haki R. Madhubuti

“where is the poetry of resistance, the poetry of honorable defiance unafraid of lies from career politicians and business men, not respectful…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

“breath, life after seven decades plus three years is a lot of breathing. seventy three years on this earth is a lot…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

“Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead…

— 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…

— 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…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

to be black is to be very-hot.

— 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

“Who has the moral high ground? Fifteen blocks from the whitehouse on small corners in northwest, d.c. boys disguised as me rip…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

“in this moment of orangutans, wolves, and scavengers, of high heat redesigning the north & south poles and the wanderings of new…

— Haki R. Madhubuti