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Our success in America will involve two circles. Black Nationalism and Islam-it will take Black Nationalism to make our own people conscious of doing for self and then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. -Malcolm X, speech notes for Africa trip in 1964
The Nation of Islam introduced Malcolm X to the two issues to which he would devote the rest of his life: black nationalism and Islam. His passion for both would lead him to travel abroad in order to understand and promote them better. In turn, his embrace of global race alliances and of mainstream Islam would also force him, in 1964, to leave his religious family because of its narrower focus on the (American) Nation of Islam.