Malcolm X frames urgency and anger not as liabilities but as potent fuels that must be directed. In his view, feelings alone do not change conditions; they only signal that something demands action. What matters is whether that energy becomes destructive reaction or disciplined momentum.
This distinction sets the tone for the quote’s central challenge: emotional intensity is common, but transformation is rare. By insisting on a conversion—urgency into labor, anger into construction—he sketches a path from impulse to impact, implying that liberation begins when people learn to govern their own force. [...]
