"Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly."

-- Manning Marable

#Loyalty Quotes #Men Quotes #Islam Quotes

“Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.”
“I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.”
“Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.”
“If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.”
“Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you.”
“My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.”
“In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.”
“The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.”

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