If white boys get beat up, am I supposed to say, “Oh, some white folks are good. You don’t stand achance! It’s always violence and war for Christians. You hear about Catholic sisters—but they do a lot of screwing behind doors. Anyway, I’d rather see a man with his breasts showing than a woman. There’s always people I gotta talk to, business deals I gotta think about, telephones that are always ringing and road work and time in the gym that I gotta take care of. I can eat all the ice cream, cake, pudding and pie I want to and still get $100,000 for an exhibition. Did you think so? One day the championship is lost, the world title belt is gone, the expenses keep piling up, but no more money is coming in. How can you be a man when another man can come get your woman or your daughter or your sister—and take her to a room and screw her—and, nigger, you don’t even protest? We want to be free. Not at all,” he huffs. José Sulaimán, dubbed the father of boxing, was a Mexican official of Lebanese and Syrian descent and president of the World Boxing Council. But in the sixth round, George was so tired. And if you were then auctioned off to Mr. Williams, you were Williams’ property. You been readin’ about me ever since you were a little boy and now you gonna see me in action. Then he thought it would be the fifth, and then the sixth. You’d hear things like, “Hey, man, what’s happenin’, where’s the ladies? I’d probably have a white wife and I wouldn’t represent black people in no way. Physically, I could run faster, further than I ever could have. The Nation of Islam was a Black Supremacist Cult! See, this is why Muslims convert people every day. Well, we don’t have nothin ‘that’s our own. You also got to remember I spent three and a half years in exile, when they took away my title because I wouldn’t be drafted. That’s what it means to be champ, and as long as I keep winning, it’ll keep happenin’. See, you got to have something going in front for you. America, rich as it is, was made rich partly through the black man’s labor. The reporter will go back home and show his film to his entire nation, which keeps me popular and sells fight tickets, which is how I earn my living—and also how I can keep buying up buildings for my people. And a priest saying he’d never touch a woman—that’s against nature, too. I pray to Allah it don’t happen, but it could. OK, let’s make ’em fight two years for that. Allah’s going to divinely chastise America! Most famously, “I’ve wrestled with alligators / I’ve tussled with a whale / I done handcuffed lightning / and throw thunder in jail / You know I’m bad, just last week I murdered a rock / Injured a stone, hospitalized a brick / I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.” It was all part of the showmanship, with Foreman sharing that he and Ali became great friends years later. See, the reason we so powerful is that we don’t let the white man control our women. One loss to Frazier and Sports Illustrated ran a headline on its cover saying “End of the Ali Legend.” And I was also left for dead against Foreman, who was supposed to be the toughest champ of all time. Archie didn’t end up hurt and he’s still intelligent—in spite of thinking Foreman could beat me. America’s day is over—and if it doesn’t do justice to the black man and separate, it gonna burn! Morning Star or Mr. Rolling Thunder, you know it’s an Indian. Well, George is humble now. When I first won the championship from Sonny Liston, I was riding high and I didn’t realize what I had. Catholic readers will no doubt provide you with an answer, but, meanwhile, perhaps you could tell us why restrictions on Muslim women are far more stringent than upon Muslim men. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? George knew he’d been caught in my trap and there wasn’t but one way he could get out of it: by knocking me out. And I also have something to say. Do you think Foreman was so confident of beating you that he didn’t train properly? Then there is Marcus Garvey and Back to Africa Movement which Richard Kelly Hoskins has alot of information on and the book WHITE AMERICA by Cox. For we can change things. They should have thrown rocks at his car or kicked down the door while he was in there screwing her—do something to let him know you don’t like it. They were as much against the Vietnam war as I was. Somebody took some pictures of me and they’re in an envelope here, so let me stop talking for a few seconds, ’cause I want you to take a look at ’em…. We can build Empire State Buildings, ’cause we got our plumbers, designers, architects, electricians and construction workers. It’s possible that I can lose faith, so I gotta pray, and to keep myself fired up, I gotta talk like I’m talkin’ now. Or I’d be like Charley Pride, the folk singer. My real pleasure is having no appointments, but that hardly ever happens. – Muhammad Ali. Yet the outdoor Stade du 20 Mai in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), was heaving with more than 60 000 spectators. No way we think about that. See, when you become spiritual and religious, you realize that you’re not big and great, only Allah is. I go on the defense and take a couple of hits to the head and the body, which is good: You gotta condition your body and brain to take those shots, ’cause you’re gonna get hit hard a couple of times in every fight. As a speaker, I was makin’ $1500 and $2500 at every stop, and I was averaging $5000 a week, so I had money in my pocket. You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab and South American countries and, man, they know me. There’d be nothing you could do with them but let ’em go. Look, we been told there’s gonna be whites who help blacks. About the onliest other sport I ever thought about was football, but I didn’t like it, because there was no personal publicity in it; you have to wear too much equipment and people can’t see you. “No. Like any big man—a spiritual leader like Wallace D. Muhammad, a politician, a president of a college—he’s in prison. That’s against nature. The way I feel, if America was attacked and some foreign force was prowling the streets and shooting, naturally I’d fight. He kept trying with his last hope, but he was too tired, and a man of his age and talent shouldn’t get used up that quick. Do you write all the poetry you pass off as your own? And it’ll happen, because it’s right that black people should have their own nation. I’m on the side of America, not them, because I’m fighting for myself, my children and my people. So black folks stay far behind,sofar behind that it’s a shame. What difference did he make in your own life? Will you assume a place in the Muslim movement when your boxing career is over? As a man who tried to unite his people through the faith of Islam that he found when he listened to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. I did the best I could and I was recognized for it, but you can’t deal with money like that. Their nations were founded on killing, on wars. Now, 45 years on, he’s stronger than ever and helping other boxers find hope outside the ring. It all adds up to being the greatest, don’t it? We’re tired of being slaves and never having nothing. Black people in America should have those names, too, and lemme show you why. Still, men don’t walk around with their chests out. I’m the champion right now and I can’t even find time for training because of other things. Same thing with me: My money and my title give me influence. George now knows he can be knocked out, so he’ll be more on guard and attackin’ less. There’s no pain, just that jarring feeling. Muhammad Ali has won by a knockdown. I’m sure that if all the black men and women who started following Elijah Muhammad were still with us, we’d have an easy 10 million followers. Look at our restaurants and buildings along Lenox Avenue in Harlem and you know we’re not just jivin’. And that’s just where I want him. I got that ability, too, and I had to use it once in each of the Frazier fights. Not frightened from fear of Muslims bothering you, only that you can see the end of white rule coming when you see 50,000 Muslims together, all clean, all orderly, all dedicated. George just didn’t realize how hard I am to hit and how hard I can hit.
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