The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

that the end was closing in on Archie. I became too moved about what he had been and what he had now become to be able to stay m ...

raise some money. And three or four nights a week, they were in their storefront rehearsing for the next Sunday, I guess, shakin ...

I had learned early one important thing, and that was to always teach in terms that the people could understand. Also, where the ...

sets too fast a pace for his followers to keep up. "Most people seeing a man in an old touring car going real slow think the man ...

for a departed brother or sister that first turned them toward Allah. But I was to learn later that Mr. Muhammad's teaching abou ...

James without a gun, or a hen that didn't cackle? And for anyone in any kind of a leadership position, such as I was, the worst ...

its services. On the Thursday M.G.T. and G.C.C. nights, sometimes I would drop in on the classes, and maybe at Sister Betty X's ...

about. My not talking to her wouldn't give her any reason to think anything, since there had never been one personal word spoken ...

Early the next morning, I picked up Betty at her parents' home. We drove to the first town in Indiana. We found out that only a ...

Amilah, arrived. I guess by now I will say I love Betty. She's the only woman I ever even thought about loving. And she's one of ...

I told the lieutenant in charge, "That man belongs in the hospital." They called an ambulance. When it came and Brother Hinton w ...

evasive when it was morally bound to be forthright; it has separated believers on the basis of color, although it has declared i ...

Every phrase was edited to increase the shock mood. As the producers intended, I think people sat just about limp when the progr ...

receiver against my ear five hours a day. I was listening, and jotting in my notebook, as press, radio, and television people ca ...

"How many of you are in your organization, Mr. Malcolm X? Right Reverend Bishop T. Chickenwing says you have only a handful of m ...

"leaders" who kept attacking us. Mr. Muhammad said he wanted us to try our best not to publicly counterattack the black "leaders ...

coffee. I would tell them "No, thanks," to please just tell me where was I supposed to sit. Sometimes the microphone sat on the ...

begging him for jobs, food, clothing, and housing. And he will always control our lives, regulate our lives, and have the power ...

America had never seen such fantastic all-black meetings! To hear Elijah Muhammad, up to ten thousand and more black people pour ...

singer called "The Charmer," had written our Nation's popular first song, titled "White Man's Heaven is Black Mali's Hell." Mini ...