Betty Shabazz Quotes

#1. Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

Malcolm X

#2. Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

Betty Shabazz

#3. No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

Jesse Ball

#4. Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you ... and respect yourself.

Betty Shabazz

#5. Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job

Malcolm X

#6. The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

A.F. Stewart

#7. Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.

Betty Shabazz

#8. I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.

Betty Shabazz

#9. My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

Karl Marx

#10. Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle.

Russell J. Rickford

#11. The thought of marriage repulses me,"he says. "[...] I especially don't want children. The only thing I want out of life is success. Lots of it. But if I admit that out loud to anyone, it makes me sound arrogant.

Colleen Hoover

#12. I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Carl Sagan

#13. Find the good and celebrate it.

Betty Shabazz

#14. Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.

Betty Shabazz

#15. I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.

Betty Shabazz

#16. Send the witch my love.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#17. Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

Betty Shabazz