Autobiography of Malcolm X
But downstairs before I went up, I stepped over and snatched a glimpse inside the ballroom. I just couldn't believe the size of ...
By the end of the dance, Freddie had let me shine the shoes of three or four stray drunks he talked into having shines, and I ha ...
* I never got any decent tips until the middle of the Negro dances, which is when the dancers started feeling good and getting ...
I took three of those twenty-five-cent sepia-toned, while-you-wait pictures of myself, posed the way "hipsters" wearing their zo ...
I could feel him combing, straight back, first the big comb, then the fine-tooth one. Then, he was using a razor, very delicatel ...
CHAPTER FOUR LAURA Shorty would take me to groovy, frantic scenes in different chicks' and cats' pads, where with the lights and ...
When I told Ella why I had quit, she laughed aloud: I told her I couldn't find time to shine shoes and dance, too. She was glad, ...
who came in there putting on their millionaires' airs, the young ones and the old ones both, only annoyed me. People like the sl ...
down to keep her from taking in washing. I never mentioned Laura to Shorty. I just knew she never would have understood him, or ...
would have been one who handled as lightly as Laura and who would have had the strength to last through a long, tough showtime. ...
she was. I remember the musty living room, full of those old Christ pictures, prayers woven into tapestries, statuettes of the c ...
Laura home early and rush back in a taxicab. And then she asked if I'd like to go for a drive later. I felt very lucky. Laura wa ...
the whole kitchen crew was too excited and upset to notice: Japanese planes had just bombed a place called Pearl Harbor. ...
CHAPTER FIVE HARLEMITE "Get'cha goood haaaaam an' cheeeeese... sandwiches! Coffee! Candy! Cake! Ice Cream!" Rocking along the tr ...
got down to the crucial point, when I came to sign up. "Age, Little?" When I told him "Twenty-one," he never lifted his eyes fro ...
was playing, because his vocalist was later my close friend, Walter Brown, the one who used to sing "Hooty Hooty Blues.") From t ...
That sandwich man I'd replaced had little chance of getting his job back. I went bellowing up and down those train aisles. I sol ...
even curse customers, especially servicemen; I couldn't stand them. I remember that once, when some passenger complaints had got ...
And I dropped over to Mason to see Mrs. Swerlin, the woman at the detention home who had kept me those couple of years. Her mout ...
That, in fact, was one of my biggest surprises: that Harlem hadn't always been a community of Negroes. It first had been a Dutch ...
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