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Autobiography of a Yogi
Autobiography of a Yogi

by Yogananda Paramahansa

THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple...

1946 183 ed.
Autobiografía Malcolm X
Autobiografía Malcolm X

by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

would move. I am not sure why he made this decision, for he was not a frightened Negro, as most then were, and many stil...

1965 70 ed.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

TWYFORD, at the Bishop of St. Asaph's, 1771.

1791 679 ed.
Assata
Assata

by Assata Shakur

There were lights and sirens.

1987 27 ed.
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.

1900 430 ed.
A Mind That Found Itself
A Mind That Found Itself

by Clifford Whittingham Beers

This story is derived from as human a document as ever existed; and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thin...

1908 133 ed.
Nigger
Nigger

by Dick Gregory

It's a sad and beautiful feeling to walk home slow on Christmas Eve after you've been out hustling all day, shining shoe...

1965 18 ed.
Autobiography
Autobiography

by Bertrand Russell

My first vivid recollection is my arrival at Pembroke Lodge in February 1876.

1944 39 ed.
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket

by Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the purportedly true chronicles of the Baudelaire children, wa...

2002 12 ed.
Monster
Monster

by Sanyika Shakur

June 15, 1975. I proudly strolled across the waxed hardwood stage of the auditorium at the Fifty-fourth Street elementar...

1993 13 ed.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Ihren 17. Geburtstag hatte sich Vicky Gordon anders vorgestellt.

1877 107 ed.
My inventions
My inventions

by Nikola Tesla

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

1977 16 ed.
Autobiography
Autobiography

by John Stuart Mill

IT seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch, some mention of the reasons which have made m...

1873 94 ed.
Angela Davis
Angela Davis

by Angela Y. Davis

I believe I thanked her but I am not sure.

1974 23 ed.