I Grew Up In The Midst Of

Bell Hooks

I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that i knew could read and write. we have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access fanon, cabral, or audre lorde because they can’t read or write. how did malcolm x radicalize his consciousness? he did it through books. if you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.