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Malcolm X Quotes about Coffee

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It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had

It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.

Malcolm X
Strong, Coffee, Sleep
Malcolm X's Speech at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference in Detroit, Michigan, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

Malcolm X
Coffee, Slave Labor, Years
Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.147, Arcade Publishing

Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

Malcolm X
Coffee, Land, Cups
Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right.

Malcolm X
Coffee, Thinking, Doe

What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job to back up his - to pay for it when, when - when he does get the coffee? It's putting the cart before the horse.

Malcolm X
Horse, Jobs, Coffee

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