Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Haki Madhubuti, (Feb 23 1942-____), US poet, writer, editor; He was an important force in the Black Arts Movement, 1960s; author of 11 books of poetry, essays, and criticism; director of the Third World Press.