“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”

—  Malcolm X, book The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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