The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!
Muhammad AliNow I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.
Muhammad AliThere were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.
Muhammad AliBlack men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.
Muhammad AliEmmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.
Muhammad Ali