"I'm with an old family was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them."

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About Malcolm X

American civil rights leader and Black nationalist who became a prominent spokesperson for the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and early 1960s. After leaving the organization, he founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He was assassinated in New York City in 1965.

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