ralph waldo emerson said great people come to us to make even greater people possible.y exemplify what they're capable of. one of the things i had to do with malcolm is i lost myself in my imitation of him. i had to understand the way in which he was kind of searching. when we were reading the pulitzer prize winning biography together, she said, when he left the nation, he was failing and flailing about. he was a wounded witness. what does that mean for me? it brings malcolm, like dr. king yesterday, it brings him down to the ground as an example. the jury i have made with my father, this man who loved me to death, he loved me hard, oh, my god, and i know you're watching, and i want you to get better, and i want you to know i love you more than beyond numbers, man. that you have made me who i am. you see, i look just like him. that's why i'm a senior. this, i had to understand that malcolm is an exemplification of what i can be. we don't need a barack obama to be black jesus. we don't need a donald trump to save the country. we need each other, that's the only way ameri