Lena Horne Quotes

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

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

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

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

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?

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

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

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

The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

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.

It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.

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.

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

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 raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

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.

We have been saying "Freedom" for six years. What we are going to start saying now is "Black Power". We have begged the President. We've begged the federal government. That's all we've been doing, begging and begging. From now on, when they ask you what you want, you know what to tell them.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

'Malcolm X' is my favorite Spike Lee movie.

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.

Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

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.