The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

addressing me as "Sir!" and my notebook contained almost nothing but Black Muslim philosophy, praise of Mr. Muhammad, and the "e ...

"BM struggle never gets open support from abroad it needs unless BM first forms own united front." "Sit down, talk with people w ...

'squares' sink." He scribbled that night (I kept both my notebooks and the paper napkins dated): "This WM created and dropped A- ...

subconscious defenses against anything he doesn't want to face up to. I've just become aware how closed my mind was now that I'v ...

"Behind the reporter, a male voice spoke up, 'Kill the bastard, kill them all.' The young man, in his unease, smiled nervously a ...

where he appeared in the Philadelphia Convention Hall on the radio station WCAU program of Ed Harvey. "You are the man who has s ...

that he actually had a reluctant admiration for Dr. King.) Malcolm X and I reached the point, ultimately, where we shared a mutu ...

Another person toward whom Malcolm X felt similarly was the actor OssieDavis. Once in the middle of one of our interviews, when ...

I remember that once in the early evening we rounded a corner to hear a man, shabbily dressed, haranguing a small crowd around h ...

About the same time, one of the scribblings of Malcolm X's that I had retrieved had read, enigmatically, "My life has always bee ...

He scribbled one night, "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Viscount Morley." And the same night, ...

confidently asked Malcolm X to arrange for me the needed introduction to Clay, Malcolm X hesitantly said, "I think you had bette ...

Malcolm X returned. He said that he had been in Boston and Philadelphia. He spent ample time with me, now during the day, in Roo ...

I saw and heard, but I threw them out of my mind. I'm going to let it stand the way I've told it. I want the book to be the way ...

where years before he had skulked, selling dope. As I resumed writing upstate, periodic notes came from Malcolm X. "I hope the b ...

pored through page by page, intently, and now and then his head would raise with some comment. "You know," he said once, "why I ...

about as the predicted "long, hot summer" began in earnest, with riots and other uprisings of Negroes occurring in suburban Phil ...

* Malcolm X wanted to "huddle" with me to fill me in on details from his trip that he wanted in the book. He said that he was ...

Malcolm X for some reason suddenly began to deliver a spate of attacks againstElijah Muhammad, making more bitter accusations of ...

know," he said after a while, "this isn't something I'm proud to say, but I don't think I've ever bought one gift for my childre ...