Malcolm X (1992)

Ossie Davis: Eulogy Performer

Quotes 

• Eulogy Performer : Here - at this final hour, in this quiet place - Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever. For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought - his home of homes, where his heart was, and where his people are - and it is, therefore, most fitting that we meet once again - in Harlem - to share these last moments with him. For Harlem has ever been gracious to those who have loved her, have fought her, and have defended her honor even to the death.

• Eulogy Performer : I say the word again as he would want me to: Afro-American. Afro-American Malcolm. Malcolm had stopped being "negro" years ago. It had become too small, too puny, too weak a word for him. Malcolm was bigger than that. Malcolm had become an Afro-American. And he wanted so desperately that we, that all his people would become Afro-Americans too.