Quotes from Malcolm X

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man.

The Negro "revolution" is controlled by these foxy white liberals, by the government itself. But the Black revolution is controlled only by God.

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.