Ali’s Reviews > Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (2007) Paperback > Status Update

“Whether you use bullets or ballots, you've got to aim well; don't strike at the puppet, strike at the puppeteer!”

“[Malcom X] was convinced that he could tell a lot about any person by listening. 'There's an art to listening well,' he told me. 'I listen closely to the sound of a man's voice when he's speaking. I can hear sincerity'”

“For Malcolm X and many others religion was not ‘the opium of the people’ but, in that lesser quoted part of Karl Mark's critique, 'the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions'”.