Category: Reading Response Malcolm X

“It went a lot faster after so much practice helped me to
pick up handwriting speed. Between what I wrote in my tablet, and
writing letters, during the rest of my time in prison I would guess I wrote
a …

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“I’ve never been one for inaction. Everything I’ve ever felt strongly about, I’ve done something about. I guess that’s why, unable to do anything else, I soon began writing to people I had known in the …

“I suppose it was inevitable that as my word base broadened, I
could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to
understand what the book was saying. Anyone who had read a great deal…

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Part B: ” 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 …

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“When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night at about ten P.M. I would be outraged with the “lights out.” It always seemed to catch me right in the middle of something engrossing.

Fortunately, …

“I supposed it was inevitable that as my word base broadened , I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying . Anyone who had read a …

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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, …

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Part B: “For the next years, I was the nearest thing to a hermit in the Norfolk Prison Colony. I never have been more busy in my life. I still marvel at how swiftly my previous life’s thinking …

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“I read more in my room than in the library itself. An inmate who
was known to read a lot could check out more than the permitted
maximum number of books. I preferred reading in the …