Reality is changing and your ideas have to change…We understood Malcolm’s hunger for new ideas, that he was a person always searching to transform himself. And I think that’s one of the most important qualities of a revolutionary: to be transforming yourself, to be expanding your humanity as events challenge you.
Grace Lee Boggs, Detroit-based activist and philosopher. In honor of her 100th birthday, Democracy Now! airs a 2008 interview in which she discuss her work in civil rights and Black Power, and her experiences with Malcolm X. Tune in at democracynow.org.