Ron Stallworth Quotes

I'm going to have to call up Spike Lee. I did a cameo for him in 'Malcolm X,' and I'm trying to get him to do my life story and the history of the Black Panther Party.

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

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

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

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

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.

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

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

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.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

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.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

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

These young people have to know that Dr. King and others made it possible for them to do their Hip Hopping.

I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

The Ballot or the Bullet

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

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

Muhammad Ali is my hero. Yes, he was the best boxer in the world, but he also put himself on the line. He talked when black Americans had to be quiet.

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.

Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because that force, which is still present but more subdued, was very in your face, and we needed to take a step back just to get some clarity.

There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!

[Donald Trump] is a horrible human being, but he ain't worse than Bull Connor. Fannie Lou loved Bull Connor and beat Bull Connor because she loved him.