Malcolm X Quotes

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.

After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are.

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.

A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character.

The personality is a work of art.

You should embrace who you are, and make the best person that you can be, not what somebody else wants you to be.

But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

Our passions are ourselves.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

The best way to be more like me is to be more like you.

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons.