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.
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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.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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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.
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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.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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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.
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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.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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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?
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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.
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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.'
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.
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As the Ambassador for WWF Earth Hour, I still vividly remember that there were only 80 buildings in China that participated the Earth Hour in its first year. Six years later, there were 170 cities and thousands of buildings that participated. We are still growing strong. I am encouraged by the accomplishments we have made together and they make me proud and more determined than ever.
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
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I personally believe that I was... a previous life or something... a previous reincarnation, a bard of some sort, because most of the things I write about are descriptions of places I've never been to.
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Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
