I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I haven't done it now to sound as though I might be proud of how bad, how evil, I was.
But people are always speculating-why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
Today, when everything that I do has an urgency, I would not spend one hour in the preparation of a book which had the ambition to perhaps titillate some readers. But I am spending many hours
because the full story is the best way that I know to have it seen, and understood, that I had sunk to the very bottom of the American white man's society when-soon now, in prison-I found Allah and the religion of Islam and it completely transformed my life.
Tag: prison islam transformation american-society
I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.
Malcolm XHow is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?
Malcolm XTag: change autobiography mortality unpredictability
My feeling about in-laws was that they were outlaws.
Malcolm XHe said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.
Malcolm XTag: leadership burden
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
Malcolm XA man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Malcolm XIn all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm XIn fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
Malcolm XTag: reform
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