He did it big.

" It's was like having tea with a black panther..." The black panther is an aristocrat in the animal kingdom. He is beautiful. He is dangerous. As a man, Malcolm X had the physical bearing and the inner self-confidence of a born aristocrat."

This was what I read on the first page of this book. What an intro! Since I didn't really have any background on Malcolm X's character, i was immediately intrigued and interested in learning more about his character. One of the things that stuck out to me while I was reading is that he commented concerning his early childhood, "So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise." I feel like this is a very important statement and that it is a foreshadowing of what Malcolm X would become both as a struggling black in the ghetto and a revolutionary within society. When Malcolm did anything, he did it to the fullest. When he was in jail, they couldn't tear him away from his reading. When he was a "hoodrat," he became one of the best. When he became an advocate for Mr. Muhammad, he rarely could be refuted, and he proved his points better than Mr. Muhammad himself.

I wonder what it would have been like to meet him. I wonder what kind of impression he had on people. Probably something like what the author felt in the beginning of this book.