I'm most proud of my family.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world and divide us in America and make other Muslims think that we are not with them.We are all the same. I recognise them and they recognise me. I'm invited to all of their homes all over the world and I'm invited to Muslim countries.

I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.