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“Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did:
"Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them "better," these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“All around the world, tourist boards advertise trips to Britain with images of the great castles and cathedrals that occupy the commanding heights of our landscape. They seem timeless and typically English. It is rarely mentioned that they are predominately French - proud monuments to the invasion that signals the end of England's 'dark age'.”
― Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain
― Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain
“You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Laura never again came to the drugstore as long as I continued to work there.
The next time I saw her, she was a wreck of a woman, notorious around black Roxbury, in and out of jail.
She had finished high school, but by then she was already going the wrong way.
Defying her grandmother, she had started going out late and drinking liquor.
This led to dope, and that to selling herself to men. Learning to hate the men who bought her, she also became a Lesbian.
One of the shames I have carried for years is that I blame myself for all of this.
To have treated her as I did for a white woman made the blow doubly heavy.
The only excuse I can offer is that like so many of my black brothers today, I was just deaf, dumb, and blind.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The next time I saw her, she was a wreck of a woman, notorious around black Roxbury, in and out of jail.
She had finished high school, but by then she was already going the wrong way.
Defying her grandmother, she had started going out late and drinking liquor.
This led to dope, and that to selling herself to men. Learning to hate the men who bought her, she also became a Lesbian.
One of the shames I have carried for years is that I blame myself for all of this.
To have treated her as I did for a white woman made the blow doubly heavy.
The only excuse I can offer is that like so many of my black brothers today, I was just deaf, dumb, and blind.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Aidan’s 2025 Year in Books
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