Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home... -Malcolm X

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

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Malcolm X Quotes to Explore

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it....
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad....
If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality....
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it....
There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your pe...
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure....
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary....
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against....
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today....
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today....

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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want....
You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't...
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad....
It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like ...
I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to ...
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fe...
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'...
I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy....
If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic...
I don't really do sad, depressing songs....