The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.


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Birth must be reviewed...
MALCOLM X
Of course, I'm not quite ready to forsake all the products of society, just yet. I have my clothes, ...
MARK X.
I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to...
X. WILLIAMSON
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the u...
MALCOLM X
Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you ...
MALCOLM X
People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
MALCOLM X
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
MALCOLM X
It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be fort...
MALCOLM X
I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppres...
MALCOLM X
And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim...
MALCOLM X
He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could ca...
MALCOLM X
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today
MALCOLM X
I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...
MALCOLM X
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this eart...
MALCOLM X
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
MALCOLM X
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too muc...
MALCOLM X
Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time bef...
MALCOLM X
I can imagine my future and I can recollect my past. In my future, I am imagining my future and I am...
UNKNOWN X
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
MALCOLM X
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
MALCOLM X
To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, you...
MALCOLM X
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviol...
MALCOLM X
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
MALCOLM X
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
MALCOLM X
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the...
MALCOLM X
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; an...
MALCOLM X
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyi...
MALCOLM X
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I a...
MALCOLM X
Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...
MALCOLM X
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
MALCOLM X
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
MALCOLM X
I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had...
MALCOLM X
I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I...
MALCOLM X
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man'...
MALCOLM X
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence
MALCOLM X
We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the pr...
MALCOLM X
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
MALCOLM X
That black, maddening firmament; that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Hea...
MARK X.
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense...
MALCOLM X
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the sa...
MALCOLM X