It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore."


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MALCOLM X
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today
MALCOLM X
I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...
MALCOLM X
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this eart...
MALCOLM X
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
MALCOLM X
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too muc...
MALCOLM X
Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time bef...
MALCOLM X
I can imagine my future and I can recollect my past. In my future, I am imagining my future and I am...
UNKNOWN X
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
MALCOLM X
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
MALCOLM X
To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, you...
MALCOLM X
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviol...
MALCOLM X
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
MALCOLM X
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
MALCOLM X
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the...
MALCOLM X
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; an...
MALCOLM X
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyi...
MALCOLM X
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I a...
MALCOLM X
Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...
MALCOLM X
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
MALCOLM X
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
MALCOLM X
I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had...
MALCOLM X
I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I...
MALCOLM X
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man'...
MALCOLM X
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence
MALCOLM X
We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the pr...
MALCOLM X
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
MALCOLM X
That black, maddening firmament; that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Hea...
MARK X.
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense...
MALCOLM X
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the sa...
MALCOLM X
All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson...
MALCOLM X
I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.
MALCOLM X
Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that [reading] opened.
MALCOM X
I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the ba...
MALCOLM X
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant...
MALCOLM X
We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be gi...
MALCOLM X
Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenme...
MALCOLM X
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ...
MALCOLM X
The old men had a set rabbit-hunting strategy that they had always used. Usually when a dog jumps a ...
MALCOLM X
All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black...
MALCOLM X
Stumbling is not falling.
MALCOLM X
إنني لا أحتمل شخصاَ لايحمل الساعة لأن ذلك يوضح لي إنه ل�...
MALCOLM X
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enoug...
MALCOLM X
We all like chicken
MALCOLM X