Cicely Tyson Quotes

'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.

My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.

If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.

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.

Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

'Malcolm X' is my favorite Spike Lee movie.

I come from an era of black pride, black power, my father riding around listening to James Brown singing, 'Say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud,' and people walking around with African medallions and Malcolm X hats.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

I don't remember when I didn't know about Martin Luther King.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.

Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.