Taleb Kabbara > Taleb's Quotes

“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.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
― Malcolm X

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
― Malcolm X

“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
― Malcolm X

“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.”
― Malcolm X

“It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.”
― Malcolm X

“Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better."
-said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“عندما تغير فلسفتك تغير طريقة تفكيرك .. وعندما تغير طريقة تفكيرك تغير مواقفك .. وعندما تغير مواقفك تغير سلوكك , وهنا .. تستطيع الشروع في العمل الجاد”
― Malcolm X

“لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“هنا يرقد رجل اصفر قتله رجل اسود في حرب رجل أبيض كان قد قتل كل الرجال الحمر”
― Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X

“They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
― Malcolm X

“Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.”
― Malcolm X

“When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“أنت تثق فيهم, أما أنا فلا. لقد درستَ عنهم في المدارس ماأرادوك أن تدرسه أما أنا فقد درستهم في الشوارع والسجون, أي على الطبيعة”
― Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X

“We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.”
― Malcolm X

“You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

“If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.”
― Malcolm X

“لقد أطفأ الرجل الأبيض نور عيوننا وجاء الأن يتهمنا بعدم القدرة على البصر”
― Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X

“All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“عندما تكون عوامل الانفجار الاجتماعي موجودة لاتحتاج الجماهير لمن يحرضها.”
― Malcolm X