I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

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

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

We can't be brave without fear.

Now, if I even say the wrong thing I make the news.

The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.