“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern.”

— Malcolm X, Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 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.”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”

“If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.”

“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”

“In the beginning was thought, and her name was Woman.”

“The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”