Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
"To understand this remarkable man, one must turn toMalcolm X Speaks.… All but one of the speeches were made in those last eight tumultuous months of his life after his break with the Black Muslims when he was seeking a new path. In their pages one can begin to understand his power as a speaker and to see, more clearly than in theAutobiography [of Malcolm X],the political legacy he left his people in its struggle for full emancipation … [This book] will have a permanent place in the literature of the Afro-American struggle." --I.F. Stone in New York Review of Books"Formidably articulate, especially in terms of international political analysis…. [W]hat made Malcolm X dangerou--in the eyes and ears of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio--was his cogent critique of not just violent white racism, but of U.S. imperialism, and his ability to connect both practices." --Globe and Mail, Canada