You 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 XMost of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.
Malcolm X