Blood Quote by Tobias Harris

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

— Junot Diaz

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

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

— Kalidou Koulibaly

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

— Manning Marable

'Malcolm X' is my favorite Spike Lee movie.

— Ron Stallworth

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

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great…

— Steven Wright

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

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

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

— David Sedaris

I love books, they're in my blood.

— Karen Marie Moning