Muhammad Ali Quotes
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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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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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I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived.
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Stay away from the ropes.
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Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.
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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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All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
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Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.
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The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.
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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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Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.
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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
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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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My toughest opponent has always been me.
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The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier.
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Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.
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Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.
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Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right.
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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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I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!
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I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.
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I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.