Category: Reading Response Malcolm X

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Part A:

Q3:

“I don’t think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I …

“I don’t think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some …

Part B:

“But bending my knees to pray — that act — well, that took me a weck. You know what my life had been. Picking a lock to rob someone’s house was the only way my knees had ever …

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Part B:

“My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in American. Not long ago, an English writer …

“It was because of my letters that I happened to stumble upon starting to acquire some kind of a homemade education.

I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I …

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“I was so fascinated that I went on–I copied the dictionary’s next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events from …

“From then until I left prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading out on my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr.Muhammad’s …