Alex Quote by 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

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

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

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

— Junot Diaz

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

In November 1963, [Malcolm X] gives his famous message to the grassroots address in Detroit, which really kind of marks off the real turning…

— 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

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

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I would say one of my favorite books is 'Blood Brothers,' a documentary about Malcolm X.

— Tobias Harris

“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