Malcolm X Quotes

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Malcolm X

Quotes to Explore

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

Edmund Phelps
- Desire
- Space
- Innovation
As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

J. Michael Straczynski
- Kids
- Think
- Dance
It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- People
- Up
- Work
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

Harlan Coben
- Book
- Guy
- Change
They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

Parker Posey
- Great
- You
- Couple
It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

Ed Stoppard
- Father
- Reality
- Stars