Life is our dictionary

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What does Sommers mean by this, that “Life is our dictionary”? In what ways do the other texts by Malcolm X and Victor Villanueva work to support, refute, and/or complicate this idea?

“I Stand Here Writing,” 212-221

“Learning to Read,” 106-115.

Excerpt from Bootstraps: An American Academic of Color, 116-129.