Malcolm X Quotes

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

... no man or woman should depend upon another for maintenance and necessaries. Family discord and social degradation will never end till each depends upon herself.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I enjoy making the decisions.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

I'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

In earnest, my dear brother, I am sorry for you from the bottom of my soul. Take my advice, and turn Huron; for I see plainly a vast difference between your condition and mine. I am master of my own body, I have the absolute disposal of myself, I do what I please.

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be an uncommon man—if I can. I seek opportunity, not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.

Don't ask f'r rights. Take thim. An' don't let anny wan give thim to ye. A right that is handed to ye fer nawthin has somethin the matter with it.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices.

You never want to put yourself in that position where you don't control your own destiny.

I like being in control of my own destiny, really.

I've always decided that I would never be dependant on a man.