When the meat platter was passed to me, I didn't even know what the meat was; usually, you couldn't tell, anyway-but it was suddenly as though _don't eat any more pork_ flashed on a screen before me. I hesitated, with the platter in midair; then I passed it along to the inmate waiting next to me. He began serving himself; abruptly, he stopped. I remember him turning, looking surprised at me. I said to him, "I don't eat pork." The platter then kept on down the table. It was the funniest thing, the reaction, and the way that it spread. In prison, where so little breaks the monotonous routine, the smallest thing causes a commotion of talk. It was being mentioned all over the cell block by night that Satan didn't eat pork.

— Malcolm X

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

— Malcolm X

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

— Malcolm X

You are either free or not free

— Malcolm X

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

— Malcolm X

You can't have capitalism without racism.

— Malcolm X

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

— Malcolm X

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

— Malcolm X

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

— Malcolm X

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

— Malcolm X