The Autobiography of Malcolm X Quotes

As the "nigger" of my class, I was in fact extremely popular—I suppose partly because I was kind of a novelty. I was in demand, I had top priority. (2.30)

My father was also belligerent toward all of the children, except me. [...] I actually believe that as anti-white as my father was, he was subconsciously so afflicted with the white man's brainwash...

My father was a big, six-foot-four, very black man. He believed, as did Marcus Garvey, that freedom, independence and self-respect could never be achieved by the Negro in America, and that therefor...

It was then that I began to change—inside. I drew away from white people. (2.78)

In the summertime, at night, in addition to all the other things we did, some of us boys would slip out down the road, or across the pastures, and go "c***ing" watermelons. White people always asso...

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. (1.70)

What my father could not know then was that of the remaining three, including himself, only one, my Uncle Jim, would die in bed, of natural causes. [...] It has always been my belief that I, too, w...

I would sit goggle-eyed at my father jumping and shouting as he preached, with the congregation jumping and shouting behind him, their souls and bodies devoted to singing and praying. Even at that...