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I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.
~bell hooks~

The Ten Commitments of the Warrior Method

1. Maintain a strong commitment to educating black boys.

2. Possess a deep and abiding knowledge of global black history.

3. Read at least 30 minutes a day on African/African American culture and life.

4. Be comfortable in predominately black environments.

5. Attend African-centered religious institutions.

6. Volunteer at least five hours a month in a human service activity that engages black boys.

7. Understand all bureaucracies that impact black boys.

8. Organize against environments oppressive of black boys.

9. Read the following five books: Beloved, Yurugu, The Miseducation of the Negro, There is a River and The Art of War.

10. Teach at least two people a month about the Ten Commitments.

Excerpted from the book The Warrior Method: A Parents' Guide to Rearing Healthy Black Boys by, Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D.

"The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples."
~Dr. Carter G. Woodson~ [The Mis-education of the Negro]