The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

actually inseparable partners. It was at this time that I changed from my old numbers man, the one I'd used since I first worked ...

My post for picking up the customers was right outside the Astor Hotel, that always-busy northwest comer of 45th Street and Broa ...

find. In all of my time in Harlem, I never saw a white prostitute touched by a white man. White girls were in some of the variou ...

The hypocritical white man will talk about the Negro's "low morals." But who has the world's lowest morals if not whites? And no ...

these places, then stage a big, gala reopening, with banners and a spotlight outside. The jam- packed, busy place with the big " ...

booth. I didn't need any intuition. And I had no gun. A cigarette case was the only thing in my pocket. I started easing my hand ...

It was a classic hustler-code impasse. The money wasn't the problem. I still had about two hundred dollars of it. Had money been ...

against the wall, tables about big enough to get two drinks and four elbows on; the Onyx was one of those very little places. Bi ...

of the door, after having humiliated me as he had, I'd have had to follow him out. We'd have shot it out in the street. But some ...

Some raw kid hustler in a bar, I had to bust in his mouth. He came back, pulling a blade; I would have shot him, but somebody gr ...

he'd better come and get me. And Shorty did his band's date, then borrowed his piano man's car, and burned up the miles to New Y ...

Anyway, it was his money that she gave me, I guess, because she never had worked. But now my demands on her increased, and she c ...

Finally, I knocked my knuckles on the table, passing, leaving the betting to the next man. My action implied that beneath my ace ...

was insane enough not to consider that he might just wait his chance to kill me. For perhaps a month I kept the machine gun at S ...

Rudy, I remember, spoke of one old white man who paid a black couple to let him watch them have intercourse on his bed. Another ...

my gang. Aside from his regular business, he owned around Boston several garages and small warehouses. The arrangement was that ...

We quickly got it down to a science. The girls would scout and case in wealthy neighborhoods. The burglary would be pulled; some ...

from our hauls. No one knew our hustle, but it was clear that we were doing fine. And sometimes, the girls would come over and w ...

But where, always before, I had been able to smoke the reefers and to sniff the snow and rarely show it very much, by now it was ...

later, when I went to pick up the watch, that things fell apart. As I have said, a gun was as much a part of my dress as a neckt ...