Now Available from Black Bird Press

Eldridge Cleaver, My Friend the Devil, A Memoir
by
Marvin X

180 pages, with photos
Introduction by Amiri Baraka
$19.95
Black Bird Press
1222 Dwight Way, Berkeley CA 94702
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One of America's great storytellers. Maybe second only to Mark Twain.
Of course, I'd place Marvin X ahead of him even. More and more I am convinced this work will be a best-seller. Though I have never read a Cleaver biography, a lot of this material seems to be new and if not factually new, it is from a novel perspective.
--Rudolph Lewis, editor, Chickenbones. A Journal, www.nathanielturner.com


You are doing a tremendous service telling our history in
our own words. I am proud to be one of your students.
- Ramal Lamar (storyteller in training)

Wonderful appreciation of both Elijah and Clara. Rare perception nowadays,
what with the Malcolm cult. The pendulum is swinging.
--John Woodford, former Editor, Muhammad Speaks
Editor, Michigan Today, Univ. of Mich.


Hallelujah! MX is reminiscing, I must say, entertainingly, about
his historic dalliance w/ shaitan rat on...
--Amiri Baraka, Newark, NJ

Excellent!--Eric Rhodes, Houston, TX

Great stuff, man, priceless….
--Rudi Mwongozi, Pianist, Oakland CA


Thank you Marvin...get it all out...write it out...sweat it out...dance it
out...cry it out, swear it out, walk it out...work it out....thank you for
sharing ...respect.
--Joan Tarika Lewis, Violinist, first female member of the Black Panther Party,
Oakland

Enjoyed your post about Cleaver. Very interesting. Contained vivid imagery.
--Martin Reynolds, Editor, Oakland Tribune