Malcolm Quotes

(On Malcolm X): "He was a dynamic person, a very special human being who might have caused a revolution. He had to be done away with. The American government couldn`t let him live. If 23 million blacks found a charismatic leader like he was, they would have followed him. The powers that be couldn`t accept that."

(about Australia) I love it! It`s awesome. I want to move here! I`ve just been promoting Big Fat Liar (2002) and hoping it`s going to go really good. "Malcolm in the Middle" (2000) is doing really well here. I haven`t been able to do a lot of stuff and I haven`t seen that much though.

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

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.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

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.

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad`s confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

(Talking about joining the Sex Pistols) I was getting my own group together; "The Flowers of Romance", and John (Lydon) said to me - there was this big hoo-haa, and Malcolm was saying "it`s all a big secret man, you know. Come down to this pub at such-and-such", and I thought they were gonna do me over cos I didn`t turn up to one of Rotten`s parties or something - he gets touchy over things like that. And they said "do you wanna play bass for The Sex Pistols?"

(Farrakhan) is the only one who can pull this magnitude of people together, ... No other leader since Martin and Malcolm have done this.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock `n roll records to trendy customers.

Cole Sear: She came a long way to see me didn`t she? Malcolm Crowe: I guess she did.

When I read `The Piano Lesson,` I realized it encompassed the entire African-American experience, ... August Wilson`s legacy is as important as Martin Luther King`s legacy, as important as Malcolm X`s legacy and as important as Nat Turner.

I left thinking August`s lost his mind, ... When I read `The Piano Lesson,` I realized it encompassed the entire African-American experience. August Wilson`s legacy is as important as Martin Luther King`s legacy, as important as Malcolm X`s legacy and as important as Nat Turner.