Category: Reading Response Malcolm X

After reading about Malcolm X”s “Saved” chapter 11, Malcolm X talks about his struggles on how he couldn’t read or write and how his grammar and spelling were very abysmal and he felt bad about it. especially writing a letter …

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“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 …

“Where else but in prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day” Paragraph 16

Malcolm X spent all of his time in prison trying to better himself …

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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 …

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“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 …

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“Between Mr. Muhammad’s teachings, my correspondence, my visitors–usually Ella and Reginald–and my reading of books, months passed without even thinking about being imprisioned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.” …

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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 history. Actually …

“For evil to bend its knees, admitting its guilt, to implore the forgiveness of god, is the hardest thing in the world. It’s easy for me to see and say that now. But then, when I was the personification of …

“You know what my life had been. Picking a lock to rob someones house was the only way my knees had ever been bent before.””i had to force myself to bend my knees. And waves of shame and embarrassment would …