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He sometimes, if I could catch him, would have to read to the children. They would always want the story read again

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so that they would really just wait until he was on the last page and say "read it again."

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"Read it again, read it again," you know, and so that he started giving the books different endings.

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He had a beautiful sense of humor, especially when he was kidding me about pork and whacking me on the back

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and saying that "you're a decent human being, smart historian, I'm going to give you 99 as a human being and

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you stop eating pork I'm going to give you 100."

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Had a beautiful sense of humor, plus the fact that when you got to know him, he was kind of shy.

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Malcolm was now in the Nation of Islam's inner circle,

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Elijah Muhammad's most visible representative.

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He had the Messenger's confidence, and the loyalty

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of thousands of Muslims.

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In a sense, Malcolm had found a father.

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He said, "They're not gonna move for you."