Black Quote by Jay Winik

I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.

— Junot Diaz

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity…

— Josh Hartnett

It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The…

— Chadwick Boseman

'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human…

— Jim Brown

“US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for…

— Michael G. Kramer

“constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub’s A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor’s The First World War, John Keegan’s The…

— Joseph E. Persico

I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy,…

— Manning Marable

The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present…

— James Fallows

Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle.

— Manning Marable

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

— Manning Marable

“John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.”

— Saul Bellow

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in…

— Uzodinma Iweala