Malcolm X Quotes

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.

Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

There is a part of yourself that is not subject to change, it is the silent witness behind the scenes. That is essentially your spirit, the spirit being an abstract but real force. It is as real as gravity. It is as real as time. It is incomprehensible. It is mysterious but it is powerful and it is eternal.

For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.

She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

The same yesterday, today, and forever.

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.

Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.

While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.

Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.