#malcolm

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker. ↗

— Spike Lee

#cousin #filmmaker #lee #malcolm

Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job ↗

— Malcolm X

#betty-shabazz #malcolm-x #wife #imagination

There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. ↗

— Malcolm X

#malcolm-x #malik-el-shabbaz #intelligence

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#malcolm #malcolm x #mandela #nelson #nelson mandela

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations. ↗

— Rodney King

#expectations #hard #i #king #life

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know? ↗

— Mos Def

#beauty #being #expression #guys #i

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#because #course #elijah #god #honorable

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive... ↗

— Malcolm X

#afrika #identity #malcolm #attitude

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject...we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#african-americans #black-panthers #black-people #blacks #huey-newton

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism. ↗

— Spike Lee

#became #black #each #going #killing