Malcolm X

I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.

Malcolm X

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Malcolm X

I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn’t believe in anything.

Malcolm X

I’ll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.

Malcolm X

I’m a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man’s house on fire, you don’t hear these little Negroes talking about ‘our government is in trouble’. They say, ‘The government is in trouble.’

Malcolm X

I’m a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.

Malcolm X

I’m inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a profe – a leader is their profession. And usually they say exactly what the white man wants – wants to hear them say.

Malcolm X

I’m not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner.

Malcolm X

I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

Malcolm X

I’m trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group – this group or that group – but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.

Malcolm X