Malcolm X Quotes

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions...

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.

I never thought I would see the outside of Chicago.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

There is no frigate like a book

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Many people open their mind through different things like music and painting, as well as Parkour. How is not important. What is important is to open your mind because you gain some freedom through it.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows