801 Quotes by Malcolm X

I hadn't hustled in the streets for years for nothing. I knew when I was being set up.

I don't think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did.

The white man's system has been imposed upon non-white peoples all over the world.

I simply refused to believe.

I got on top of a car and began waving my arms and yelling at them to quiet down. They did quiet down, and then I asked them to disperse - and they did.

I could tell the impact of this upon them. They had been aware that the plight of the black man in America was "bad," but they had not been aware that it was inhuman, that it was psychological castration.

They called me 'the angriest Negro in America.' I wouldn't deny that charge. I spoke exactly as I felt. 'I believe in anger. The Bible says there is a time for anger.

If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.

Revolutions are fought to get control of land, to remove the absentee landlord and gain control of the land and the institutions that flow from that land.