Where do you think Id be next week if I didnt know how to shout and holler and make the public take notice? Id be poor and Id probably be down in my home town, washing windows or running an elevator and saying – Muhammad Ali
At home I am a nice guy: but I dont want the world to know. Humble people, Ive found, dont get very far. – Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. – Muhammad Ali
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. – Muhammad Ali
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. – Frantz Fanon