“Don't tell me! Don't tell me!”

—  Yolanda King

Reaction to news of father being shot quoted in Betty Shabazz, Surviving Malcolm X: A Journey of Strength from Wife to Widow to Heroine (2003) by Russell J. Rickford, p. 349
1960s

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American actress 1955–2007

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