4 Quotes & Sayings By Haki R Madhubuti

Haki R. Madhubuti is an author, educator, and publisher of the first widely published comic book about the Black experience in America, The Final Call. He is also the founder and publisher of FinalCall.com, the premiere online journal on news, politics and entertainment for African Americans. FinalCall.com provides content that empowers its audience to participate in creating a better world for all people Read more

Madhubuti is the recipient of the 2007 John Hope Franklin Award for Outstanding Social Activism and is a co-recipient of the 2002 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He is also the author of four books, including The Final Call: The Most Comprehensive Look at Race Relations in America Since Reconstruction, The Black Comic Book Companion, Why We Fight: Osama bin Laden's Terrorist Attack on America, and No Safe Place: Race, Drugs and the Death Penalty.

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Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end”. “Street culture, ” as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban reality is synonymous with survival at all costs. This world view is mostly negative, because it demands constant adjustment to circumstances that are often far beyond young people’s control or understanding, such as economics, education, housing, employment, nutrition, law, and so forth. Haki R. Madhubuti
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Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person “freely” accepts and uses. Haki R. Madhubuti
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Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves. Haki R. Madhubuti