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| *Too black, too strong, the short form of a ] quotation from his ] speech that's been sampled by the rap group ] and others: "It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."<ref>Message to the Grass Roots, speech, November 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).</ref> | *Too black, too strong, the short form of a ] quotation from his ] speech that's been sampled by the rap group ] and others: "It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."<ref>Message to the Grass Roots, speech, November 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).</ref> | ||
| *''Too Black, Too strong'', a poetry collection by ] | *''Too Black, Too strong'', a poetry collection by ] | ||
| * has the words, Too black, too strong as the lyrics. Though it may not reference to the phrase | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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- Too black, too strong, the short form of a Malcolm X quotation from his Message to the Grass Roots speech that's been sampled by the rap group Public Enemy and others: "It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."
- Too Black, Too strong, a poetry collection by Benjamin Zephaniah
References
- Message to the Grass Roots, speech, November 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).
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