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“It always stayed on my mind that I would die a violent death. In fact, it runs in my family…my father because of what he believed in…if I take the kind of things in which I believe and then add to that the kind of temperament that I have, plus the 100% dedication I have to whatever I believe in, these are the ingredients that make it just about impossible for me to die of old age.”

Malcolm X wonders if it isn’t the American White man who is racist, but the American political, economic, and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the White man.”

“If you want to do something worthwhile, you have to have a worthwhile plan.”

“Behind bars a man never reforms. He will never forget. He will never get completely over the memory of the bars.”

“I was walking on my own coffin”

Malcolm returns to Boston and begins a new hustle

13 year old Malcolm X ordered to go to a reform school

Makes me think of the Dozier School for Boys in Florida and The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

“If you want something, you better make some noise.”

Malcolm X learned at an early age that using your voice and shouting out in protest could accomplish things

Malcolm X knew he’d die by violence, two of his uncles did, so did his father