When something is about to happen, I can feel something, sense something." 1 And most of her children are the same way, I think. She had always been a strange woman in this sense, and had always had a strong intuition of things about to happen. "It was then," Malcolm says in his autobiography, "that my mother had this vision. These ingredients would make it just about impossible for me to die of old age.” “If I take the kind of things in which I believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that I have, plus the one hundred percent dedication I have to whatever I believe in. Has anyone ever been more conscious, from birth to death, of his coming murder? Malcolm X saw his own violent death in advance just as clearly as his mother Louise Little saw the imminence of his father's death, on that afternoon in 1931 when her husband Earl left their house and began walking up the road toward East Lansing, Michigan.
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