Haki R. Madhubuti Quotes

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

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• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Arts
  • Awards

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Best
  • Opinion
  • Georgia

• I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Like
  • Never
  • River

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Lost
  • Party

• I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • God
  • Best

• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Children
  • Bear

• You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Respect
  • Alone
  • Singing

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Love
  • Today

• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • Deep
  • Human Nature

• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Serious

• I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Embarrassed
  • Apologetic

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • American
  • Today

• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Same

• The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Life
  • Value

• I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Life

• It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Money
  • House
  • Problem

• Even more than 'Swingers,' 'Go', for me, defines my career.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Career

• Earth, Wind & Fire was something new. I wanted to bring something innovative to the music. It was out of a desire to create excitement with music that was pleasurable to play and listen to.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Desire

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

  

  Haki R. Madhubuti
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Learning