Brother Quote by Manning Marable

I have asked James Shabazz, I've asked other people who are members of the OAAU, Herman Ferguson and others, what led to that disastrous…

— Manning Marable

Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source…

— Manning Marable

Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a…

— Manning Marable

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to…

— Manning Marable

There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were members of…

— 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

“There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became warriors and…

— Cornel West

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude…

— Bell Hooks

Either Malcolm X or Martin [Luther King] could have played the role of a unifier, but it was - Malcolm as long as he…

— Manning Marable

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 had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.

— Sekou Odinga

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