Alex Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There's a hidden history. You see, Malcolm X and [Alex ] Haley collaborated to produce a magnificent narrative about the life of Malcolm X,…

— Manning Marable

Over a period of about year-and-a-half, Malcolm X and [Alex] Haley agreed to work with each other. They met usually after a long business…

— Manning Marable

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

— Manning Marable

What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being…

— Manning Marable

What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk…

— Manning Marable

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

— Manning Marable

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

— Junot Diaz

“I spent most of my time floating on an inflatable raft in the pristine Mediterranean waters, my big belly curving toward the sun, reading…

— Jane Fonda

This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of…

— Nat Hentoff

Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that.…

— Kekla Magoon

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

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

— Alice Walker