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One of Spike Lee unique moments in the movie that was also in the book was about Malcolm X mother. In the book, it quotes Malcolm X saying, “I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother”. In the movie, Malcolm was in a bar in Harlem where a white man approached him; the white man called Malcolm a nigger and a boy. Malcolm X did really pay him any attention until the white man said “What you going to do, go home back to your momma. When the white man said that it angered Malcolm and he picked up a beer bottle and hit the white man in the head. Then he said, “Don’t ever talk about my momma.” The book and movie both conveyed the same love Malcolm had for his mother but in different ways. Spike

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