Malcolm X Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

  Malcolm X

  Mother, Teacher, Children

• I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

  Malcolm X

  Mother, Brother, Nice

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.17, Ballantine Books

• As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

  Malcolm X

  Mother, Worry, Trouble

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.27, Ballantine Books

• I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.

  Malcolm X

  Mother, Believe, Fool

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.31, Ballantine Books

• These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.

  Malcolm X

  Mother, Father, Kids

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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