Category: Reading Response Malcolm X

“When I had progressed to really serious reading, every night 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, right outside my door was

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“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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“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 college. I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too

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Significant Quote 1: “I had really begun back in the Charlestown Prison, when Bimbi first made me feel envy of his stock of knowledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversation he was in, and I had tried to

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“I saw that the best thing I could do was to get hold of a dictionary to study, to learn some words. I was lucky enough to reason also that I should try to improve my penmanship. It was sad.

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In paragraph 10 Malcolm describes the reason behind his love for reading by saying “Between Mr. Muhammad’s teachings, my correspondence, my visitors–usually Ella and Reginald–and my reading of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact,

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“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

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