| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37605 |
| QUOTATION: | If you’re born in America with a black skin, you’re born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Malcolm X (1925–1965), U.S. African-American leader. Interview June 1963. Malcolm X: The Man and His Times, pt. 3, “Malcolm X Talks with Kenneth B. Clark,” ed. John Henrik Clarke (1969). |
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