Thread by @YusufTw33ts, I am reading the autobiography of Malcolm X now. I'll share some [...]

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I am reading the autobiography of Malcolm X now. I'll share some of his quotes from the book until I (hopefully) recommend it on Friday.

If you're reading a book do share below.

"People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by *one* book"
-Malcolm X

#MalcolmX

Speaking of a well-known black photographer, Gordon Parks, Malcolm said,

"His success among the white men never has made him lose touch with black reality"

#MalcolmX

"It's their guilt that upsets them (whites) not me"

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"It's a hard thing to speak out against me when you're agreeing with so much that I say"

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"By tomorrow night, they'll know how to say their first English word - n*****"

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"Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed to falling, but to get up & try again"

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"Do you realize that some of history's greatest never were recognised until they were safely in the ground!"

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"I guess a man's entitled to make a fool of himself if he's ready to pay the price"

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"If you want something you had better make some noise"

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"If you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating."

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"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight"

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"They prided themselves on being incomparably more 'cultured', 'cultivated', 'dignified' and better off than their black brethren down in the ghetto"

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"Even though they appeared to have opened the door, it was still closed"

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