Malcolm X Quotes

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

We must never bend too much.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

It’s time for change. It’s time for someone smart enough to know, strong enough to do, sure enough to lead...

Before I was a mum, I could live in another dimension, create another world, and it wouldn't bother me if I was not totally available or totally myself. Today I cannot do that anymore.

'PKP' was one of its kind, and 'PKP 2' is a very different take on love.

Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.

Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.