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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.
Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.
I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.
Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.
Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.
With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"
My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.
Malcolm Turnbull, more than anyone, changes month to month on a range of issues.
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time.
If everything in my career has to be made into an autobiography, then there will be people who might think that I am trying to make a statement. But I don't want to do that.
I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses.
My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.
We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
'Macbeth' sags in act four - the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the play is so long, Shakespeare manages to sustain the arc.
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
I thank those activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and others. They risked - and sometimes lost - their lives in the name of freedom and equality.
I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.
I believe that the evidence will show that there was not so much a conspiracy, but a convergence of interests with three different groups that had an interest in eliminating [Malcolm X] voice and his vision.
This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.
In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.
People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.
I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him.
Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.
I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'
Film songs have so many creative limitations, but a private album is like an autobiography that reflects your state of mind.
an autobiography held out the promise of hearing truths that only friends confess to one another but are knowledge you need to live.
When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life.
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.
Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.
He was always - I like to say of Malcolm - he was just simply electrical. Everything he did almost was dramatic, and it wasn't that he was trying to be: it was just the nature of him.
There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.
'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one of the great Hollywood screenwriters.
