Malcolm X Quotes

Learn to love being black.

What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

I love being black.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

The next time you feel you have to say, "I love you" to someone, say it to yourself - and see if you believe it.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

People better get used to the idea that I exist.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

The most pleasing of all sounds that of your own praise.

I'm black because I was born this way. I'm proud of it. Thank God I am who I am.

I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an enemy.' And it's hard. It's really hard, though, when you're coming up. It's something that you have to teach yourself and learn.

I feel good being a black woman; I've always felt good.

I don't wait for someone to appreciate me for what I am doing.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.