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

— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), Ch. 11

About Malcolm X

1925 – 1965

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

“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.”

“We are African, and we happened to be in America.”

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”

“Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.”