Malcolm X:
We had the best organization a black man's ever had. Niggers ruined it.
Baines:
A man curses because he doesn't have the words to say what's on his mind.
[
Witnessing Malcolm's control over a mob]
Captain Green:
That's too much power for one man to have.
Elijah Muhammad:
You will be in the public eye. Beware of them cameras. Oh, them cameras are bad as any narcotic.
Malcolm X:
The only thing I like integrated is my coffee.
Rudy:
I'm half wop, I'm half nigger. I'm not afraid of nobody.
Malcolm X:
We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!
Malcolm X:
[
whispering] I will not touch the white man's poison; his drugs, his liquor, his swine, his women.
Baines:
A Muslim must be strikingly upright; an outstanding example so that those in the darkness can see the power of the light.
[
first lines]
Announcer:
In the name of Allah the merciful, all praises due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. The one God to whom praise is due forever. The one who came to us in the person of Master Fard Muhammad and raised up the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Amen.
[
pause]
Announcer:
Asalaamalaikum!
Crowd:
Alaikum-salaam!
Announcer:
How do you feel?
Crowd:
Good!
Announcer:
Who do we want to hear?
Announcer:
Malcolm X!
Announcer:
Are we gonna bring him on? Yes, we gonna bring him on. Well let us hear from our minister, Minister Malcolm X. Let us bring him on with a round of applause!
[
West Indian Archie gives Malcolm his first gun]
West Indian Archie:
Now you're outfitted. You ready to tackle the streets?
Malcolm X:
Yeah, I'm ready. Let them come.
Earl Little:
[
shouting] I'm a man!
Shorty:
See that spot? Get it! The spot... All right, that's it.
Cholly:
[
knocks on door] Hey Little! Your man out here waiting on you!
[
playing 'Cops and Robbers']
Shorty:
Yeah, Red!
Malcolm X:
Come on, you missed me!
Shorty:
Try this on for size!
[
makes Tommy-gun noises]
Malcolm X:
I ducked.
Shorty:
[
laughing] You ducked?
Brother Earl:
I just assumed...
Malcolm X:
Don't *assume* anything, brother!
Eulogy Performer:
Here - at this final hour, in this quiet place - Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes -extinguished now, and gone from us forever. For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought - his home of homes, where his heart was, and where his people are - and it is, therefore, most fitting that we meet once again - in Harlem - to share these last moments with him. For Harlem has ever been gracious to those who have loved her, have fought her, and have defended her honor even to the death.
Malcolm X:
Cats that hung out together trying to find a solution found nothing. Cats that might have probed space or cured cancer, West Indian Archie might haved been a mathematical genius... but we were all victums of the American social order.
Malcolm X:
You are not an American, you are the victim of America!
Malcolm X:
Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that this man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone he's created destruction. So I charge him. I charge him with being the greates kidnapper on this earth! I charge him with being the greatest murderer on this earth! I charge him with being the greatest robber and enslaver on this earth! I charge the white man with being the greatest swine-eater on this earth. The greatest drunkard on this earth! He can't deny the charges! You can't deny the charges! We're the living proof *of* those charges! You and I are the proof. You're not an American, you are the victim of America. You didn't have a choice coming over here. He didn't say, "Black man, black woman, come on over and help me build America". He said, "Nigger, get down in the bottom of that boat and I'm taking you over there to help me build America". Being born here does not make you an American. I am not an American, you are not an American. You are one of the 22 million black people who are the *victims* of America. You and I, we've never see nany democracy. We didn't see any... democracy on the-the cotton fields of Georgia, wasn't no democracy down there. We didn't see any democracy. We didn't see any democracy on the streets of Harlem or on the streets of Brooklyn or on the streets of Detroit or Chicago. Ain't no democracy down there. No, we've never seem democracy! All we've seen is hypocrisy! We don't see any American Dream. We've experienced only the American Nightmare!
Crowd:
[
shouting] Malcolm! Malcolm! We want Malcolm! We want Malcolm!
Malcolm X:
[
as a waiter] I aims to please, sir, and I'm pleased to aim!
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