"I'm the only Black man they've ever been close to who they know speaks truth to them. It's their guilt that upsets them, not me. The white man is afraid of the truth. The truth takes the white man's breath and drains his strength - you just watch his face get red anytime you tell him a little truth."
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I loved Malcolm, because Malcolm X never lied, unlike the schools and their faces of morality, unlike the streets and their bravado, unlike the world of dreamers - Malcolm was the first political pragmatist I knew, the first honest I'd ever heard. He was unconcerned with making the people who believed they were white comfortable in their belief."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the world and me.
