“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”

— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 400

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.”

“It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.”

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.”

“Learn what dwells in man, what is not given to man, and what men live by.”

“We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools.”

“Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn.”