Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.

Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.

So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.

Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Some people have special resources inside, and when God blesses you to have more than others, you have a responsibility to use it right

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.