Summary/Main Points:
Malcolm X's biography on how he learned how to read is an unusual one. During his time spent in prison, Malcolm needed a way to express himself though literature. Thus, he spent most of his time reading book form the prison library. Later he finds that his time in prison gave him more freedom in reading than reading in college.
Quotes:
Q: "Immensely proud to realize that not only had I written so much at one time, but I'd written words that I never knew were in the world."
R: Malcolm deeply wanted to express himself to a point where he copied each and every page of the dictionary.
Q: "Months passed without out me even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I had never been so truly free in my life."
R: Your first thoughts of a prison usually entails some criminals lifting weights, not a single image of someone reading in the library.
Q: "My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America."
R: I believe in what Malcolm says about homemade education. Even though college is meant for you to explore and digest new ideas, some of the best times I learn something is when I'm at home.
Critical Questions:
1. Will every single human being ever be given their human rights, if not realize their rights.
2. If you can spend a life time reading books, wouldn't nobody be 100% right if theres still knowledge to be attained.
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