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The Autobiography of Malcolm X QUOTES

The Autobiography of Malcolm X QUOTES

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

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

2 " Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

3 " I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

4 " It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared its mission to be a universal brotherhood under Jesus Christ. Christian love is the white man's love for himself and for his race. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

5 " I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

6 " This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

7 " The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

8 " Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9 " Laura never again came to the drugstore as long as I continued to work there.
The next time I saw her, she was a wreck of a woman, notorious around black Roxbury, in and out of jail.

She had finished high school, but by then she was already going the wrong way.
Defying her grandmother, she had started going out late and drinking liquor.
This led to dope, and that to selling herself to men. Learning to hate the men who bought her, she also became a Lesbian.
One of the shames I have carried for years is that I blame myself for all of this.
To have treated her as I did for a white woman made the blow doubly heavy.
The only excuse I can offer is that like so many of my black brothers today, I was just deaf, dumb, and blind. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

10 " Never ask a woman about other men.
Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

11 " The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that 22 million black people have not risen up against their oppressors – in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria, and even by the democratic tradition! It is a miracle that a nation of black people has so fervently continued to believe in a turn-the-other-cheek and heaven-for-you-after-you-die philosophy! It is a miracle that the American black people have remained a peaceful people, while catching all the centuries of hell that they have caught, here in white man’s heaven! The miracle is that the white man’s puppet Negro ‘leaders’, his preachers and the educated Negroes laden with degrees, and others who have been allowed to wax fat off their black poor brothers, have been able to hold the black masses quiet until now. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

12 " He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

13 " Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

14 " It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.
He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

15 " I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

16 " I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

17 " All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

18 " All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that 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. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

19 " One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X

20 " Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. "

― Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X