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...Jail was my school," says King. "I came out armed and dangerous. Armed with wisdom and knowledge. I read Aristotle and Homer. I got into Sigmund Freud. That almost blew my mind. I've been taught by Hegel, Kant, Gibran, Fanon and Samuelson. Man, I love Bill Shakespeare. He was some bad dude...
...less wealthy must leave school from time to time and work in the fields to support their families, thereby prolonging their years of study. The students live in large, cheap boarding houses and watch their money carefully. They read "Carlos Marx," organize their own discussion sections on Franz Fanon, listen to Radio Havana on shortwave sets, and talk much more quietly in the streets outside the university, lowering their voices or quickly changing the subject when a stranger approaches. They seem less remote from the daily life of their country than North American students, more readily conversant with the practical...
...kind of knowledge needed by blacks is more than the mesmerizing rhetoric and the myopic prognosis of the para-intellectuals and self-acclaimed theoreticians of the past decade. We can no longer afford to transform profound political theorists--from Karl Marx to W.E.B. Du Bois to Frantz Fanon--into mythical characters, while turning their complex theories into catechistic blueprints for passionate action. Blacks need the kind of knowledge that flows from the subtle rationality of seriously committed intellectuals who have the enhancement of blacks foremost on their minds. We need the type of theoretical analysis that bases itself...
...going as well as how to get there. Ineffective action is due not so much to powerful opposition as to conceptual misinformation. Intellectual commitment is as important as the very action which flows from it. We must note that Lenin graduated first in his law school class; Fanon was a top-notch psychiatrist; Marx was a competent Ph.D...
...paramount importance for blacks to engage in scholarship. This scholastic engagement is undeniably valuable for blacks--culturally, politically and psychologically. Blacks will not only have firm representation in the production of scholarship, but more importantly, scholastic engagement will provide the black struggle with relevant knowledge and concrete strategies. As Fanon states, "The task of bringing the people to maturity will be made easier...by the high intellectual level of its leaders." This high intellectual level is necessary because the prerequisite of changing the world is understanding what it was, why it is what it is and how to change from...