In his essay “best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary” Malcolm X, a militant black nationalist leader, who rose global fame as an advocate for Pan-Africanism, states that the outcome of his learning was due to his studies in prison. According to Malcolm X, reading a few sentences “might as well have been in Chinese. He mentions how being in prison had motivated him to read. Explaining that skipping words as he read “ended up with little idea of what the book said”. Bring up the fact that people who would hear him in person, television, or read something he wrote would have never guessed he didn’t go beyond the eighth grade. He supports his claim by explaining on how he first felt towards reading. X, would skip letters because he