At the beginning of the excerpt from his autobiography, Malcolm X says, “In the street, I had been the most articulate hustler out there, I had commanded
attention when I said something," but the level of his literacy was no longer
adequate for him to meet his goals. What motivated Malcolm X to improve his
literacy, and what aspects of his literacy did he improve?

He became motivated to educate himself after he noticed how his intellectual prison friend named "Bimbi" was able to take hold of any conversation he was a part of simply because of how well-read he was. Malcolm X copied down dictionaries simply for the sake of learning how to write and to learn the meaning of words.

Explanation:

obama was told in early july 2004 that he was chosen to deliver the address, and he largely wrote the speech himself, with later edits from the kerry presidential campaign.