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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Malcolm was the first political pragmatist I knew, the first honest man I’d ever heard. He was unconcerned with making the people who believed they were white comfortable in their belief. If he was angry, he said so. If he hated, he hated because it was human for the enslaved to hate the enslaver, natural as Prometheus hating the birds.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
Malcolm X was a realist
50 Cent • The 50th Law
provided my point of reference.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Tapson Mawere, a revolutionary intellectual in the fight for Zimbabwean independence,
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Malcolm gave himself an extraordinary education: Herodotus, Kant, Nietzsche, H. G. Wells’s History of the World, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk, Gregor Mendel’s Findings in Genetics, J. A. Roger’s Sex and Race, Will Durant, Mahatma Gandhi, and so on.