Alex Quote by Manning Marable

There were tensions between these two organizations [Organization of Afro-American Unity and N.O.I.] , and Malcolm had to negotiate between them and since he…

— Manning Marable

[Alex Haley] objective was to illustrate that the racial separatism of the N.O.I. was a kind of pathological or a kind of - it…

— Manning Marable

“Within the Nation, he [Malcolm] explained that his purpose was to present the views of Elijah Muhammad and to challenge distortions about their religion.…

— Manning Marable

'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

“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

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

I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black…

— Manning Marable

What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began…

— Manning Marable

Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because…

— Kamasi Washington

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

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

— Amiri Baraka