{"author":"Malcolm X","author_id":"Malcolm+X","total_quotes":121,"quotes":[{"text":"The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["civil-rights","france","independence","malcolm-x","revolution"],"id":813,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["blacklivesmatter","blackpower","history","malcolmx","race","racism","white-privilege"],"id":7730,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["freedom","justice","man "],"id":8473,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["political"],"id":12888,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo. My mother remained in the same hospital at Kalamazoo for about 26 years.My last visit, when I knew I would never come to see her again-there-was in 1952. I was twenty-seven. My brother Philbert had told me that on his last visit, she had recognized him somewhat. 'In spots' he said.But she didn't recognize me at all.She stared at me. She didn't know who I was.Her mind, when I tried to talk, to reach her, was somewhere else. I asked, 'Mama, do you know what day it is?'She said, staring, 'All the people have gone.'I can't describe how I felt. The woman who had brought me into the world, and nursed me, and advised me, and chastised me, and loved me, didn't know me.It was as if I was trying to walk up the side of a hill of feathers.'-Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["kalamazoo","louise-little","malcolm-x","mental-illness"],"id":16504,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My home made education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London asking questions. One was, “What’s your alma mater?” I told him, “Books.” You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["books","education","hope","prison","prison-industrial-complex","race","racism","reading"],"id":19550,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["freedom","action","oppression "],"id":19898,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"You can't have capitalism without racism.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["capitalism","racism"],"id":22878,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["philosophy","politics"],"id":23453,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"},{"text":"I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.","author":"Malcolm X","tags":["humanity","justice","truth"],"id":29242,"author_id":"Malcolm+X"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":121,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}