Haki R. Madhubuti Quotes

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

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

Haki R. Madhubuti
Soft, strong, not afraid to take the lead, creative father, organized and organizer, a brother to brothers, a brother to sisters, understanding, patient, a winner, maintainer of the i can, i must, i will attitude toward Black struggle and life, a builder of the necessary.

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 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
The most prevailing consciousness among Black people today is one of survival. And this survival is not of a collective nature, in which individuals, communities and institutes work together to solve problems. Black survival, especially in the urban areas, is more Darwinism, a "survival of the fittest" attitude.

Haki R. Madhubuti
Ever wonder where the circle came from
or who were the first people to use the triangle?
who were the original cultivators of the earth, who used
water of the nile to power minds and machines? what people
created music from instrument and voice and viewed the
building of cities as art and science? who were the
first to love because love contained the secrets of tomorrow?
look at yourselves.

Haki R. Madhubuti