"The white race is doomed not because..." - Quote by Malcolm X

“In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.”

“You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.”

“Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.”

“You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.”

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”

“The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.”

“Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.”

“For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.”

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.”