Review Of Malcolm Xs Beauty: When The Other Dancer Is The Self

There are many ways we form a sense of ourselves. In Malcolm Xs “A homemade Education”, Malcolm came to the understanding that he was capable of more than what he was already doing. He went from being a hustler convicted of robbery to a civil rights activists for black lives. In Hurston's “How it feels to be colored me”, she learned that racism is a thing. She never thought much of being a colored individual until she moved to highly white populated area but she never let that affect how she saw herself as a person. In Walker's "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self", Walker learned that throughout it all, no one would ever be there for her the way she was for yourself. More people, if not everyone, should feel confident in the skin they

His motivation to teach himself came from anger of not being able to understand a book he was given. He took it upon himself to learn and be his own teacher. What motivated him more was the history of African Americans. The massive amounts of racism made him want to make a difference and change people's minds about the views of blacks. He went from an inmate with no morals to a civil rights activist with a goal. This autobiography shows the importance reading had on him then and now. He learned quite a lot from prison and seemed to be happy with the way he learned. Like he stated " I don't think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. Where else but in prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day?" (Malcolm X, 99) He has become a influential african american in black history. Yes, we have come long ways from colored individuals being seen differently but racism still exists in some people's minds and still has an impact on

At times, she would be discouraged by others words or just the way they treated her. As she stated " Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."( Hurston) She often lets racial discrimination get to her but in the end she embraces and is proud of who she is, even when others may think differently of her. When she said "I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads"(Hurston), she sees herself as the beautiful, strong woman that she is. The thought of not accepting who you are and not embracing the skin you live in happens to everyone, not just those who are colored. Alice Walker dealt with a experience much like Zora-Neale Hurston's, struggling to accept herself and her