Malcolm X Quotes

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

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• When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Information
  • Conversation
  • Valuable

• I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • May
  • Me
  • Deep

• I try to do my best.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Best
  • Try

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Story
  • Example
  • Nest

• Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Style
  • Always

• 'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Press

• Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Know
  • Creative

• Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Miss

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Trainer

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Artists
  • Very

• One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Want
  • Know
  • Intuition

• To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Own

• She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Destiny
  • Distance
  • Oblivion

• Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Hope

• The only argument the world will listen to now is the argument of personal holiness. It has heard all the rest and rejected them.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • World
  • Rest

• Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • America
  • Authority
  • Smoking

• Anytime a guy gets traded at midseason - a young player - it's surprising.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Guy
  • Player

• The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
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