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Part B – “I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America” (pg2.5)
I found this block quotation significant because this is when Malcolm X realizes that his life won’t be the same after learning to love reading. He says how he realized in prison that reading has opened new life for him. Reading for him is a reason to be alive. He wasn’t reading for a degree but instead to self-educate himself. He believes his education and love for reading has made him become more aware of how important it is to be educated as a black man. Facing segregation Malcolm X feels that it is important for him and his people to be educated. Malcolm X says as a black person the more educated you are the more you are aware to the racism being committed.
I like the quote you selected because it’s an important part for readers to see how much his devote to break free from the oppression black men had back then to obtain an education or get decent jobs.
I like the way you explained the message Malcolm X was telling us as the readers about how education is important to see the harsh treatment that they had to deal with on a daily basis.
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