" I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever
the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke
inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. . . .
My homemade education gave me, with every additional book
I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness,
and blindness that was affecting the black race in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X "
― Huey P. Newton , Revolutionary Suicide