How can we have any dignity, honor or pride in ourselves if we validate this continued process of ballot box terrorism?
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“Black Is the Color” It takes quite a bit of wine in the morning to achieve this sound so early. You people just don’t know what I go through for you.
It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.
“Message to the Grass Roots,” speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).
