diff --git a/django_migration_linter/migration_linter.py b/django_migration_linter/migration_linter.py
index 660e8df..73156dc 100644
--- a/django_migration_linter/migration_linter.py
+++ b/django_migration_linter/migration_linter.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import inspect
 import logging
 import os
 import re
+import sys
 from enum import Enum, unique
 from subprocess import PIPE, Popen
 
@@ -12,7 +13,6 @@ from django.conf import settings
 from django.core.management import call_command
 from django.db import DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS, ProgrammingError, connections
 from django.db.migrations import RunPython, RunSQL
-from six import PY2
 
 from .cache import Cache
 from .constants import (
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ from .utils import clean_bytes_to_str, get_migration_abspath, split_migration_pa
 
 logger = logging.getLogger("django_migration_linter")
 
+PY2 = sys.version_info[0] == 2
+
 
 @unique
 class MessageType(Enum):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c81f874..7044479 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ setup(
         "django>=1.11",
         "appdirs>=1.4.3",
         'enum34>=1.1.6;python_version<"3.4"',
-        "six>=1.14.0",
         "toml>=0.10.2",
     ],
     extras_require={