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Ain't this beautiful? I'm free!
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(Man) Fantastic!
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I'm free.
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# Now, I want everybody
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# To repeat after me
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# If you don't know who you are
and where your place in life is
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# Just say to yourself, I am!
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# Somebody!
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# I am!
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# Somebody!
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# I may be poor
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# But I am somebody #
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(Translator) 'It was a great joy
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'to see that the championship
was going to happen in Africa.
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'People were so happy.
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'At last the world was
paying attention to our continent.
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'Yes, we knew Muhammad Ali
as a boxer,
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'but more importantly
for his political stance.
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'When we saw that America was at war
with a Third World country, Vietnam,
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'and that one of the children
of the United States said
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'"Me? You want me to go
and fight against the Viet Cong?"
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'"Why should I fight against them?
They haven't hurt me."
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'And for us, it was extraordinary to
see that in the America of that time
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'someone could take such a position.
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'He may have lost his title,
he may have lost millions of dollars
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'but he gained
the esteem of millions of Africans.'
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(Crowd chanting) Ali! Ali! Ali!
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What is your population?
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(Man translates into French)
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- 22 million.
- 22 million?
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- 22 million.
- How many George Foreman fans here?
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(Translates)
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- (Laughter)
- We don't know, we don't know.
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- How many Muhammad Ali?
- So many we cannot count them.