Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love

When my title was taken away boxing died.

I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

I didn't even need America, I was so popular outside the country, until the prosecutin' attorney came from Washington, and said, judge, we cannot let this man go to Japan and fight, because they are anti-American.Now, if I want to leave the country, I know how to leave. Tomorrow. Quick. Easy. If I really want to leave. That's not the intention. The intention is to stop me from makin' a livin'. To punish me.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.