Malcolm X Quotes

We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity.

Malcolm X

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• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Change
  • Marathon

• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Stop

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • True
  • Attention
  • Young

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• I was a little too young to be a hippie.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Young
  • Little
  • Hippie

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Different
  • Politics
  • Ethics

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Home

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Life
  • May
  • Soul

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Giving
  • Action
  • Best

• It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Discount

• Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Real
  • Nature

• Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Gold

• I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • God
  • Power
  • Sick

• I like money. You like money. We need the money. But, money is not going to bring humanity and spiritualism into your life.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Life
  • Money
  • Humanity

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Power
  • Society
  • Humanity