It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers Ever unjustly, all the integrators who love white folks, was unjustly kicked out of Washington, they've been deprived of education and poverty throughout the country.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.

Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. In 1959, he went throughout the Holy City of Mecca to dine and wine with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and all of the black, mainly the rulers of the Islamic countries.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.