It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

I can remember a couple of real fights when I ran. Because they were kinda dangerous.

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

Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah.