Learning To Read:

This excerpt made me feel inspired, it opens my mind to the dedication Malcolm X put into secure knowledge even if he wasn’t in the best environment. Malcolm X had a lot of struggles learning how to educate himself, learning new words and meanings. But he persevered through it all and pushed himself to learn and open his mind. Malcolm described it as being “truly free” even while still being in prison, reading and writing because a source of freedom for his mind. The fact that he read at 10 o clock at night, even if the lights were off, he still found a way to continue to read until he was satisfied with his reading for the day. He opened his mind to the covering of Black presence in history, showing how whitewashed it truly was. He stated that he didn’t need a status symbol and that his homemade education was very impactful on his life and how he viewed the world with the knowledge he had learned in prison.