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Malcolm X Quotes

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Malcolm X

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965

Topics

Father Name Know Grandfather Real

Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

Joanna Lumley

Time Me Eating Fish Back Down

I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.

Andre Rieu

Home Beautiful I Am World Year

Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.

Mayer Hawthorne

Man People Me Haircut Some People

Tawny ports have already spent 20 or 30 years in wood - it's not likely they're going to improve. On the other hand, they're not going to get any worse.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Wood Hand Years Improve Going Get

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

John Polanyi

Experience People Treasure Real Own

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

John Pople

I Am Colleagues Friends Award Know

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

Sister Souljah

Me Understand Riding Up Something

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Michael Ondaatje

Light Research You Know Difficult

I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way a woman dresses doesn't have to be so aggressive. Being feminine is a powerful feature in itself. Power is in a person's demeanor.

Jason Wu

Power Woman Dress Believe Think You

I'm so excited to be a Coppertone brand ambassador because as an athlete, taking care of my body is a huge part of my job, and sunscreen is a vital part of that.

Christen Press

Job Brand Care Body Athlete Excited

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

Craig Johnston

Bad Wrong Now Footballer Jack

Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.

Anne Robinson

Time Me Shopping World Believe Done