A-F-R-O, Malcolm X - Malcolm Spoke to Me lyrics

New bridges must be built
Because in the minds of the
Majority of our people today
Africa is too far
So, the only way you and I can point
Them in that direction is build new bridges
We have to have the type
Of understanding of Africa
And the type of understanding
Of our people here
In order to build a bridge

There's not a majority of the
Story that I'm entering
I have to say that I
Must confess pained memories
Slain enemies, every entity that bothers me
Has to be puzzles
Connected and solvin' each piece
Each one reminds me of a
Mirror with broken streaks
And each of those streaks are peaks
Of each part of me
Oughta be profiled, denied a good kid
Labeled an up-to no-good kid, a hooligan
I'm soon to be brought up as taught
Up, but then I'm caught up
In this -
Life of mines and the lines I describe
And the rhymes I twist
And the lyrics I fit it with
Like a fitted cap
But that's just an example
Teenage years are a sample of the struggle
I'm combusted
Touched with is the burst of the bubble
The rubble I step in
The trouble I'm consented with
Remember that the best of me
Is fed up with everything
Trust me, that's no exaggeration
I'm the young man with bad luck facin' him
I'm the young man
Broken tears replacin' his -
Cold dark heart, and broken glass shards
Stuck inside his mind, as I combine the hurt
And the words that converse
The hurt'll get worked
To my personality
Every person perches over my insanity
'Cause I'm perfect in analogy

A line of communication between the two
And once the lines of
Communication have been established
And our African brothers can - can - um
- stretch forward their hands and reach us
And we can stretch forth our
Hands and reach them -
Why, there's nothing that this blue-eyed man
In this country will be able
To do to you and me
Successfully from that day onward

I don't think when a man is being criminally
Treated - that some criminal has the right
To tell that man what tactics to use
To get the criminal off his back
When a criminal starts misusing me
I am going to use whatever is necessary
To get that criminal off my back
Don't blame a cracker in
Georgia for your injustices
- the government is responsible
For the injustices!

When you have a philosophy or a
Gospel - I don't care
Whether it's a religious gospel, a
Political gospel, an economic gospel
Or a social gospel
If it's not going to do something for
You and me right here, right now
To Hell with that gospel!

So, we have to have a new approach
A new appraisal - and this
New appraisal and new
Approach has to be in tune with the reality
Of the conditions that we are in
After having -
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