Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

— Malcolm X

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

— Malcolm X

Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. She was the one whose words hurt him.

— Malcolm X

Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo. My mother remained in the same hospital at Kalamazoo for about 26 years. My last visit, when I knew I would never come to see her again-there-was in 1952. I was twenty-seven. My brother Hilbert had told me that on his last visit, she had recognized him somewhat. "In spots" he said. But she didn't recognize me at all. She stared at me. She didn't know who I was. Her mind, when I tried to talk, to reach her, was somewhere else. I asked, "Mama, do you know what day it is?" She said, staring, "All the people have gone." I can't describe how I felt. The woman who had brought me into the world, and nursed me, and advised me, and chastised me, and loved me, didn't know me. It was as if I was trying to walk up the side of a hill of feathers."-Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

— Malcolm X

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

— Malcolm X

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

— Malcolm X

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

— Malcolm X

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

— Malcolm X

History proves that the white man is a devil.

— Malcolm X

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

— Malcolm X