Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

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.

No pork, soda pop, cigarettes, alcohol – ever!

I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights at night time - talking and playing marbles. But I was so wrapped up in boxing since I was 12.

Whoever listens to slander is himself a slanderer.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.