The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

convicts. "The white man is the devil" is a perfect echo of that black convict's lifelong experience. I've told how debating was ...

In the prison debates I argued for the theory that King James himself was the real poet who used the nom de plume Shakespeare. K ...

his own sons as being guilty of the same acts of immorality that he judged Reginald and so many others for. But at that time, al ...

a bait, as a minnow to reach into the ocean of blackness where I was, to save me. I cannot understand it any other way. After El ...

Exactly as I had known it would, almost overnight the Charlestown convicts, black and white, began buzzing with the story. Where ...

"Nothing Down" advertisements drew poor Negroes into that store like flypaper. It was a shame, the way they paid three and four ...

No solid food, only juice and coffee, was taken for our breakfasts. Wilfred and I went off to work. There, at noon and again at ...

Muhammad himself. Today, I have appointments with world-famous personages, including some heads of nations. But I looked forward ...

When God bragged about how faithful Job was, said Elijah Muhammad, the devil said only God's hedge around Job kept Job so faithf ...

"X" replaced the white slavemaster name of "Little" which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my paternal forebea ...

"My brothers and sisters, our white slavemaster's Christian religion has taught us black people here in the wilderness of North ...

"Turn around and look at each other, brothers and sisters, and think of this! You and me, polluted all these colors-and this dev ...

he sees a mirror of his crime-and his guilty conscience can't bear to face it! "Every white man in America, when he looks into a ...

The small, frail boy usually settled his older brothers' and sisters' disputes, Mother Marie said. And young as he was, he becam ...

Islam, that the true name for that religion's people was Muslims. Mr. W. D. Fard taught that the Negroes in America were directl ...

Mr. Muhammad told me that his older children's lack of formal education reflected their sacrifice to form the backbone for today ...

In the years to come, I was going to have to face a psychological and spiritual crisis. CHAPTER THIRTEEN MINISTER MALCOLM X I qu ...

Mine! Murdered by this white man. To get fifteen million of us here to make us his slaves, on the way he murdered one hundred mi ...

Except for that one day when I had stayed with Ella on the way to Detroit after prison, I had not been in the old Roxbury street ...

numbers business, and was doing well. Sammy even had married. Some fast young girl. But then shortly after his wedding one morni ...