The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X

“Work in conjunction with us—each of us working among our own kind.”

let them form their own all-white groups, to work trying to convert other white people who are thinking and acting so racist.

Working separately, the sincere white people and sincere black people actually will be working together.

it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come;

I have been more reassured each time the white man resisted me, or attacked me harder—because each time made me more certain that I was on the right track in the American black man’s best interests.

all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.

he wanted me to be sure and read a new book, Crisis in Black and White by Charts Silberman—“one of the very few white writers I know with the courage to tell his kind the truth”;