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I began my investigation with the creator himself. Not God, but Glenn Gordon Caron. I had interviewed him in 2015, for The Red Room Podcast, and hoped he would be open to the idea. He gave me his blessing and an updated interview. Then I
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“We were in that world of Negroes who are both servants and psychologists, aware that white people are so obsessed with their own importance that they will pay liberally, even dearly, for the impression of being catered to and entertained.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of 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.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“I don't think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
“There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.”
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“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.)”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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