Quotes from Malcolm X

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

America is a white man's country.

God is more lasting than the white man.

God is about to eliminate the white man from this earth.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.