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

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Source : Haki R. Madhubuti (1990). “Black men: obsolete, single, dangerous? : Afrikan American families in transition : essays in discovery, solution, and hope”, Third World Pr

Haki R. Madhubuti

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“I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.”
“Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.”
“After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.”
“I think men were destined to become homemakers. After all, who ever heard of "Ms. Clean" or the "Woman from Glad"?”
“Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.”
“Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.”
“It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.”
“Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities that enable all living beings to obtain their food, to find shelter, to bring forth their young: to sing and dance and fly through the air and swim through the depths of the sea. This is the same inner tendency that evokes the insight of the poet, the skill of the artist and the power of the shaman.”

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