Peace Be Unto Those Who Follow Right Guidance.
"The powder keg is always larger than the wick. The smallest thing in the powder keg is the wick. You can touch the powder all day long and nothing happens. It's the wick that you touch that sets the powder off." (p.190)
From "Confrontation with an 'Expert'." In Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements. Edited with Prefaftory Notes by George Breitman. New York, Grove Press: 1965.
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