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But Zora had other needs. She needed to know, for instance, what the end of the world was like—“whether it was sort of tucked under like the hem of a dress,” as she once wrote, or if it was just “a sharp drop-off into nothingness.” One
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“the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as “nigger pool.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.”
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“We were in that world of Negroes who are both servants and psychologists, aware that white people are so obsessed with their own importance that they will pay liberally, even dearly, for the impression of being catered to and entertained.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.”
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“All of us—who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries—were, instead, black victims of the white man’s American social system.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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