Ahead of time Quote by Manning Marable

The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963.…

— 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

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 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

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

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

'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

Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far…

— Manning Marable

Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and…

— Manning Marable

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

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