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filter: author = Malcolm X clear
He said that the Negro had been trained to dissemble and conceal his real thoughts, as a matter of survival. He argued that the Negro only tells the white man what he believes the white man wishes to hear, and that the art of dissembling reached a point where even Negroes cannot truthfully say they understand what their fellow Negroes believe.
The Negro problem, which he had always said should be renamed "the white man's problem," was beginning to assume new dimensions for him in the last months of his life.
The only Negroes who really had any money were the ones in the numbers racket, or who ran the gambling houses, or who in some other way lived parasitically off the poorest ones, who were the masses.
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She went out of her way never to let me become afflicted with a sense of color-superiority. I am sure she treated me this way partly because of how she came to be light herself.
page: 8
I remember well how my mother asked me why i couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
page: 8
If you see somebody winning [at gambling] all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating.
page: 16
We children watched our anchor giving way. It was something terrible that you couldn't get your hands on, yet you couldn't get away from. It was a sensing that something bad was going to happen.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business--you know they're doing something that you aren't.
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I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
page: 22
"The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle." - Freddie
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