Manning Marable Quotes

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.

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.

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

American women who know the history of this country will always resent the fact that American men chose to enfranchise Negroes fresh from slavery before enhancing their wives and mothers.

Women were really the backbone of the civil rights movement, although the leadership was predominantly male. At the rallies, the audience was women and children. The platform was predominantly men.

I got personal satisfaction from making trouble for high-placed sexists and helping less lucky women fight the establishment

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

Malcolm X was a man among men.

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

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.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.

Girls were nothing in the '70s.

I respect women but do not necessarily believe that women need to compete with men.

I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.

I have always stayed away from works that objectify women or is misogynistic or politically incorrect.

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of the United States. Nevertheless, he built two organizations in the spring of 1964. First, Muslim Mosque Incorporated, which was a religious organization that was largely based on members of the N.O.I. who left with him. It was spearheaded by James 67X or James Shabazz, who was his chief of staff. Then secondly was the Organization of Afro-American Unity.