I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no… — Malcolm X

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library. Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read—and that's a lot of books these days. If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity—because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.