Malcolm X (1992)

Biopic of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader. Born Malcolm Little, his father (a minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail, but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca, there he converts to the original Islamic religion and becomes a Sunni Muslim and changes his name to El-Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz. He is later on assassinated and dies a Muslim martyr.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, affection, african-american, african-american-protagonist, anger, anti-racism

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Quotes:

Malcolm X: We had the best organization a black man's ever had. Niggers ruined it.

Baines: A man curses because he doesn't have the words to say what's on his mind.

[Witnessing Malcolm's control over a mob]::Captain Green: That's too much power for one man to have.

Elijah Muhammad: You will be in the public eye. Beware of them cameras. Oh, them cameras are bad as any narcotic.

Malcolm X: The only thing I like integrated is my coffee.

Rudy: I'm half wop, I'm half nigger. I'm not afraid of nobody.

Malcolm X: We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!

Malcolm X: [whispering] I will not touch the white man's poison; his drugs, his liquor, his swine, his women.

Baines: A Muslim must be strikingly upright; an outstanding example so that those in the darkness can see the power of the light.

[first lines]::Announcer: In the name of Allah the merciful, all praises due to Allah, Lord of all the worlds. The one God to whom praise is due forever. The one who came to us in the person of Master Fard Muhammad and raised up the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Amen.::[pause]::Announcer: Asalaamalaikum!::Crowd: Alaikum-salaam!::Announcer: How do you feel?::Crowd: Good!::Announcer: Who do we want to hear?::Crowd: Malcolm X!::Announcer: Are we gonna bring him on? Yes, we gonna bring him on. Well let us hear from our minister, Minister Malcolm X. Let us bring him on with a round of applause!

'Malcolm X' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

X, Malcolm Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Trials of Muhammad Ali

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Ali 70 from Las Vegas

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen King Kennedy

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Double Conscious: Race & Rhetoric

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hubert H Humphrey: The Art of the Possible

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Civil Rights Leader
• Play in Full Screen Mourir? Plutôt crever!

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Motherland

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Precious

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Facing Ali

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nation of Islam
• Play in Full Screen Strawberry Fields: Keeping the Spirit of John Lennon Alive

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Malcolm's Echo: The Legacy of Malcolm X

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Our Story Our Voice

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Maafa: Truth 2007

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 500 Years Later

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Something the Lord Made

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Huey P. Newton Story

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hendrix

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Classified X

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Speeches of Malcolm X

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself - Speeches, Interview
• Play in Full Screen Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ghosts of Mississippi

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen All Power to the People

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sonny Liston: The Mysterious Life and Death of a Champion

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Murderers, Mobsters & Madmen Vol. 2: Assassination in the 20th Century

  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Malcolm X

  1992, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Nina Simone: La légende

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Malcolm X

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Real Malcolm X

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself - Speeches, Lies in State
• Play in Full Screen JFK

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Beat This!: A Hip Hop History

  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Malcolm X

  1972, role: actor , character name: Himself - Speeches, Lies in State
• Play in Full Screen Malcolm X

  1972, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Dynamite Chicken

  1971, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A.k.a. Cassius Clay

  1970, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Muhammad Ali, the Greatest

  1969, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen One More River

  1964, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Hate That Hate Produced

  1959, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Malcolm X:

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."

"We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary."

"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence"

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today"

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."

"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."

"Truth is on the side of the oppressed."

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education."

"Stumbling is not falling."

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."

"America preaches integration and practices segregation."

Malcolm X

Born: 1925-05-19

Died: 1965-02-21