Muhammad Ali Quotes
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Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'
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The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.
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My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.
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We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.
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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.
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I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!
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That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.
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Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
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Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.
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Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
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I'm relyin' on Almighty God, Allah, and whatever happens happens.
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I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
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I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.
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Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
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Stay away from the ropes.
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Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.
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It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
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I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.