The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

The social workers worked on us. White women in league with Negroes was their main obsession. The girls weren't so-called "tramp ...

And, finally, "The sentences to run concurrently." Shorty, sweating so hard that his black face looked as though it had been gre ...

spent at Charlestown, it runs all together in a memory of nutmeg and the other semi-drugs, of cursing guards, throwing things ou ...

Under Bimbi's tutelage, too, I had gotten myself some little cellblock swindles going. For packs of cigarettes, I beat just abou ...

especially startled the white convicts. Later I would learn, when I had read and studied Islam a good deal, that, unconsciously, ...

tell me anything before he is ready. The offhand way Reginald talked and acted made me know that something big was coming. He sa ...

"What about Hymie?" "What is it if I let you make five hundred dollars to let me make ten thousand?" After Reginald left, I thou ...

two solid hours about "the devil white man" and "the brainwashed black man." When Reginald left, he left me rocking with some of ...

longer even of its true color, that no longer even knew its true family names. The slavemaster forced his family name upon this ...

Michigan, where he had served five years for evading the draft. Hilda said that The Honorable Elijah Muhammad came to Detroit to ...

A two-hundred-year span was needed to eliminate on the island of Patmos allof the black people- until only brown people remained ...

people all over the worldbegan to rise, and as the devil white civilization, condemned by Allah, was, through its devilish natur ...

For evil to bend its knees, admitting its guilt, to implore the forgiveness of God, is the hardest thing in the world. It's easy ...

Many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something I've said, will think I went to school ...

Available on the prison library's shelves were books on just about every general subject. Much of the big private collection tha ...

before they came to this country. Carter G. Woodson's Negro History opened my eyes about black empires before the black slave wa ...

and yellow peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation. I saw how since the sixteenth century, the so-called "Christ ...

Let us face reality. We can see in the United Nations a new world order being shaped, along color lines-an alliance among the no ...

important.They remind me of so many of the Negro "intellectuals," so-called, with whom I have come in contact-they are always ar ...

really disliked how Negro convicts stuck together so much. But when Mr. Muhammad's teachings reversed my attitude toward my blac ...