malcolm x quotes on racism

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. ~Martina Navratilova



Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion. ~Lin Yutang



For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ~Georges Rouault



Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ~James Bryant Conant



Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. ~Bill Vaughn



These blessed candles of the night. ~William Shakespeare, referring to stars, Merchant of Venice



Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick



When the head aches, all the body is the worse. ~English Proverb



It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13



God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



There is no halftime for cheerleaders! ~Author Unknown



Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. ~John Greenleaf Whittier



And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray. ~John Keble



My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. ~Albert Einstein



I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left. ~Gene Perret



I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~Willa Cather, 1913



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One ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark, its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time, one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin where it belongs. ~George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," Shooting an Elephant, 1950



What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb