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Stay In College, Get The Knowledge. And Stay There Until You're Through. If They Can Make Penicillin Out Of Moldy Bread, They Can Sure Make Something Out Of You. Advice To A Young Person To Continue His Education.

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How Could They Say That My Religion, Islam Was A 'race Hate' Religion After All The Plunder And Enslavement And Domination Of My People By White Christians In The Name Of White Supremacy?

I Don't Have To Be What You Want Me To Be.

The Prophet Introduced A System Of Prayer In That It Was Interwoven Into Man's Daily Work: A Prayer In The Morning When He Arose From His Bed; A Prayer At Lunch Time, As An Indication That If His Body Needed A Diet, So Did His Spirit; A Prayer In The Afternoon When He Retired From His Daily Work; A Prayer At Sunset And A Prayer When Going To Bed.

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My Soul Has Grown Over The Years, And Some Of My Views Have Changed. As Long As I Am Alive, I Will Continue To Try To Understand More Because The Work Of The Heart Is Never Done.

Stumbling Is The Fruit Of Haste.

Live Everyday As If It Were Your Last Because Someday You're Going To Be Right.

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Rest But Never Quit. Even The Sun Has A Sinking Spell Each Evening. But It Always Rises The Next Morning. At Sunrise, Every Soul Is Born Again.

Black People In America Will Never Be Free So Long As They're On The White Man's Land. We Can't Be Free Until We Get Our Own Land And Our Own Country In North America. When We Separate From America And Take Maybe Ten States, Then We'll Be Free.

I Can't Believe Some Of The Things I Did.can't Believe It. Sayin' I Was The Greatest And The Beautifulist And I Was Gonna Whup This Guy And That Guy, Sayin' I'm Pretty, I Can't Be Beat.

To Be Able To Give Away Riches Is Mandatory If You Wish To Possess Them. This Is The Only Way That You Will Be Truly Rich.

I Have A Radar Built Inside Me To Avoid Punches

I Am The Astronaut Of Boxing. Joe Louis And Dempsey Were Just Jet Pilots. I'm In A World Of My Own.

What I Will Remember Most About Mr Mandela Is That He Was A Man Whose Heart, Soul And Spirit Could Not Be Contained Or Restrained By Racial And Economic Injustices, Metal Bars Or The Burden Of Hate And Revenge.

Fifteen Referees. I Want Fifteen Referees To Be At This Fight Because There Ain't No One Man Who Can Keep Up With The Pace I'm Gonna Set Except Me. There's Not A Man Alive Who Can Whup Me. I'm Too Fast. I'm Too Smart. I'm Too Pretty. I Should Be A Postage Stamp. That's The Only Way I'll Ever Get Licked.

There Are No Pleasures In A Fight But Some Of My Fights Have Been A Pleasure To Win.

My Face Is So Pretty, You Don’t See A Scar, Which Proves I’m The King Of The Ring By Far.

That's Okay, I'm Still The Greatest.

You Dont Lose If You Get Knocked Down; You Lose If You Stay Down.

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?

You Can Be Free. You Can Be Black. Look At Me! I'm The Heavyweight Champion! Can't Nobody Stop Me.

Outrun The People Who Quit When They Feel Discomfort, Outrun The People Who Stop Because Of Despair, Outrun The People Who Are Delayed Because Of Prejudice, Outrun The People Who Surrender To Failure, And Outrun The Opponent Who Loses Sight Of The Goal. Because If You Want To Win, The Will Can Never Retire, The Race Can Never Stop, And Faith Can Never Weaken.

Frank Sinatra Told Floyd Paterson How He Should Whoop Me. Frank Sinatra.

You Could Be The World's Best Garbage Man, The World's Best Model; It Don't Matter What You Do If You're The Best.

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I Don't Smoke But I Keep A Match Box In My Pocket, When My Heart Slips Towards Sin, I Burn The Matchstick And Heat My Palm With It, Then Say To Myself, "ali You Can't Even Bear This Heat, How Would You Bear The Unbearable Heat Of Hellfire?"

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