The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

"token-integrated" black Ph.D. associate professor I never will forget; he got me so mad I couldn't see straight. As badly as ou ...

Prophet Jesus. I would explain that it was our belief that Christianity did not perform what Christ taught. I never failed to ci ...

A story that I had read in prison when I was reading a lot of Greek mythology flicked into my head. The boy Icarus. Do you remem ...

way at the white man. I had participated in spreading the truths that had done so much to help the American black man rid himsel ...

over this argument. I finally convinced Betty that if anything ever happened to me, the Nation of Islam would take care of her f ...

wouldn't remember that my picture was there because of my fervor in championing Mr. Muhammad. They wouldn't simply reason that a ...

bone-deep personal belief, was that Elijah Muhammad in every aspect of his existence was a symbol of moral, mental, and spiritua ...

The ugly rumor was spreading swiftly-even among non-Muslim Negroes. When I thought how the press constantly sought ways to discr ...

Every day, I was meeting the microphones, cameras, press reporters, and other commitments, including the Muslims of my own Mosqu ...

understanding of prophecy, and of spiritual things. You recognize that's what all of this is- prophecy. You have the kind of und ...

received from Mr. Elijah Muhammad a directive-in fact, two directives. Every minister was ordered to make no remarks at all conc ...

I told Mr. Muhammad, "Sir, I agree with you, and I submit, one hundred per cent." I flew back to New York psychologically prepar ...

introducing himself as he later presented himself to the world, "I'm Cassius Clay." He acted as if I was supposed to know who he ...

Any Muslim would have known that my "chickens coming home to roost" statement had been only an excuse to put into action the pla ...

Muslim, didn't need to be told how white Christianity had dealt with the American black man. ' "This fight is the truth," I told ...

Nothing in all of the furor which followed was more ridiculous than Floyd Patterson announcing that as a Catholic, he wanted to ...

the ghetto people knew that I never left the ghetto in spirit, and I never left it physically any more than I had to. I had a gh ...

start one." I don't know if I could do either one. But I know one thing: it had taught me in a very few minutes to have a whole ...

dignity, and with the power and the tools that the white man understands, and respects, and fears, and cooperates with. Listen, ...

Substantially, as I saw it, the organization I hoped to build would differ from the Nation of Islam in that it would embrace all ...