This was a piece I needed to do. Malcolm X is one of my biggest influences. When I was younger I did not have any role models. There were no black men that I wanted to be like, that made me want to be better, to make me believe in my own abilities. So like many others from the background I come from, I looked to the community influencers. Malcolm X showed me that I could be intelligent, articulate, sophisticated, fearless and rugged at the same time.