Malcolm X Quotes

I always let other people describe me because if I describe myself you will not understand.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

If I were a chocolate I'd eat myself. Seriously, we're all interested in ourselves and what other people are saying about us to some extent.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Often, others see you, as you see yourself

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

All of us are probably three people. We're probably the person that we think we are, and we're probably the person that you or somebody else perceives us to be, and... frankly, we're probably somewhere in the middle. And I think that it's important that there be a balance with respect to how individuals are - you know, are looked at.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.