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I appreciate Black artistry in all forms. But these movies always follow the same formula: 1. You got your main characters—the strong Black female lead who has had enough with life and needs to get rid of some sort of deadweight. Usually ...more
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Malcolm X
“Since most New Yorkers had never heard of Lansing, I would name Detroit. Gradually, I began to be called “Detroit Red”—and it stuck.”
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X
“there seemed to be a higher code of ethics and sisterliness among those prostitutes than among numerous ladies of the church who have more men for kicks than the prostitutes have for pay.”
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X
“the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as “nigger pool.”
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X
“many white people simply stopped in their tracks to watch me pass. The drape and the cut of a zoot suit showed to the best advantage if you were tall—and I was over six feet. My conk was fire-red. I was really a clown, but my ignorance made me think I was “sharp.” My knob-toed, orange-colored “kick-up” shoes were nothing but Florsheims, the ghetto’s Cadillac of shoes in those days. (Some shoe companies made these ridiculous styles for sale only in the black ghettoes where ignorant Negroes like me would pay the big-name price for something that we associated with being rich.)”
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X
“All of us—who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries—were, instead, black victims of the white man’s American social system.”
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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