“You got a ‘television’ brain, a ‘television’ vocabulary and you live in a ‘television’ world!”
Ladies have a listen to this that I have to say. Once your work is finished, don’t watch the television. Once your work is finished, find something constructive to add to your mind.
Have an hour for reading. And I don’t mean read gossip blogs and cosmetic magazines . Read something that will make you know what’s happening.. So when you get into a conversation you can sound intelligent, even if you aren’t!
Do you hear what I’m saying?
What kind of man wants a wife today who can’t hold a conversation? No, don’t a man wanna sit up and talk to you about babies, or about ‘little Thabo need some shoes’, your husband don’t wanna even hear that!
One of the reasons you have trouble in your house is you can’t carry an intelligent adult conversation. When your husband was there, you talk trash! That’s all you talk, trash!
Now he come out he’s a well versed man, he wants to talk about his ideas to change the world. He wants to talk about the sun, moon and stars! He wants to talk about the state of politics or the economy, even if he don’t know what he’s talking about, that’s what he wanna talk about.
I’m telling you this so you won’t lose your husband.
All of you will agree that your husband is more serious once he becomes a avid reader. He’s serious! Now you can’t hold no man now like you used to… talking some trash about sister so-and-so!
I mean I’m telling you, that will drive a man crazy. So go get a book and read!
And then when he comes in the house, start talking about something that’s going to nourish his mind and nourish your mind. Read your lessons, and talk about the lessons!
See, you’ve been so far away from this that if your husband sits and reads or studies… he could be reading beside you studying something serious, you think he’s ignoring you!
But if he puts down his book and both of you sit and watch TV together, that makes you happy doesn’t it?
Why don’t you think that he can read with you as easily as watch the television with you? I’m going to tell you why. You don’t know enough about what he’s reading. You don’t know enough about what he’s interested in, see most of you are too interested in yourselves only.
So that when he’s doing what he’s interested in, you feel left out!
But the television and Instagram is your level! Please forgive me for saying this. But no, the television is your level! You got a ‘television’ brain, a ‘television’ vocabulary and you live in a ‘television’ world!
Now as long as your man is spending time with you on your level, your happy!
But when he tries to get you into a world that’s based on sharing ideas and logical arguments, that’s based on intelligence, that’s based on nourishing that brain, you feel left out. And you are left out! I don’t make you angry for saying this do I?
But this is good for you because when you understand that, you know how to get in, and if you got in, you know how to keep in! But if you don’t understand then I guarantee you that you won’t keep what you got and you won’t get what you got your eyes on!
Adapted Speech/Advice to Wives by Malcolm X
