Autobiography of Malcolm X
Intuition told us that we had better lay low for a good while. The worst thing was that we'd been seen. The police in that nearb ...
Every weekend, I'd pay my bill-anywhere from fifty to even one hundred dollars, if I had really plunged on some hunch. And when, ...
In the Profumo case in England, Christine Keeler's friend testified that some of her customers wanted to be whipped. One of my m ...
no respect for the whites they get into bed with. I know the way I felt about Sophia, who still came to New York whenever I call ...
do for him. He bought rundown restaurants and bars. Hymie was his name. He would remodel these places, then stage a big, gala re ...
At that moment, a cop walked through the front door. The two thugs slipped out. I never in my life have been so glad to see a co ...
CHAPTER EIGHT TRAPPED There was the knocking at the door. Sammy, lying on his bed in pajamas and a bathrobe, called "Who?" When ...
Because of this code, in my time in Harlem I'd personally known a dozen hustlers who, threatened, left town, disgraced. Once the ...
I never will again. But it's a good thing I was then. I'm positive if I'd seen West Indian Archie come in, I'd have shot to kill ...
grooves at the same time. The only word to describe it was a timelessness. A day might have seemed to me five minutes. Or a half ...
CHAPTER NINE CAUGHT Ella couldn't believe how atheist, how uncouth I had become. I believed that a man should do anything that h ...
Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, ...
studied; I pretended perplexity. And finally I put in my money, calling the bets. The same betting pattern went on, with each ne ...
popular musicians, the "names," even, who really were making big money for musicians-and they had nothing. For that matter, all ...
I had one very practical reason never to work in the daytime, aside from my inclinations. With my high visibility, I'd have been ...
and Shorty were begging, "Man... Red... cut it out, man!... Freeze!" I pulled the trigger once more. "I'm doing this, showing yo ...
respective businesses. We were going along fine. We'd make a good pile and then lay low awhile, living it up. Shorty still playe ...
knew that something was wrong. But I didn't ask him anything. I've always had this rule-never ask anybody in that kind of situat ...
I raised my arm, and motioned to him, "Here, take my gun." I saw his face when he took it. He was shocked. Because of the sudden ...
CHAPTER TEN SATAN Shorty didn't know what the word "concurrently" meant. Somehow, Lansing-to-Boston bus fare had been scraped up ...
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