“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?”

— Malcolm X, Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (3 April 1964)

About Malcolm X

1925 – 1965

American civil-rights leader and author of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

“My alma mater was books, a good library.”

“We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves.”

“There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

“Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.”

“He can communicate nothing so precious, glorious, blessed, as himself.”

“I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.”

“People are rarely grateful for a demonstration of their credulity.”

“We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.”