America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white power structure's system to keep talking democracy while keeping the black man out of sight somewhere, around the corner.
Malcolm XYou canโt hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You canโt hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You canโt hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we canโt hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western HemisphereโNorth America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbeanโis the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.
Malcolm XDon't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
Malcolm XOnly in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X