When We Were Kings
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walk with the dope addicts,
the prostitutes.

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I could help people, show 'em films,
take this documentary,

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and help uplift my people
in Louisville, Kentucky;

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Indianapolis, Indiana;
Cincinnati, Ohio;

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go through Tennessee, Florida
and Mississippi

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and show Black Africans who didn't
know this was their country,

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"You look like your brothers
in Alabama, in Georgia.

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"They never knew you was over here."
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God is blessing me
and it was an accident

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to help get to all these people
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and show them films I haven't seen!
I'm well and I haven't seem them!

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Now I can get all these films, you
governments can let me take pictures

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and I can take
all this back to America!

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But - it's good to be a winner,
all I've got to do is whup Foreman.

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I realise how unfortunate
and uncomfortable it is

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for you guys to have travelled so far
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and expecting so much
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and getting so little.
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(Mailer) 'George Foreman
was a phenomenon.

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'He was almost like a physical guru.
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'He almost never spoke
but it was always arresting.

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'You never quite knew what he meant,
it might be deep or non-responsive.

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'He was Negritude.
He was this huge Black force.'

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Because of this I had expected
Muhammad Ali to be here today.

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I was gonna hit him in his mouth
to give you some entertainment.

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Now when I go in the ring,
you see what kind of mind I got now?

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Oh! Oh!
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I just got to pound him.
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I'm not gonna even realise...
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I might look at his face
and say, "How'd I do that?"

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Allah, God, I'm his tool. God got
in me on purpose for my people.

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God has made this man
look like a little kid.

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His so-called right hand ain't
nothing now, I don't even feel 'em!

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I walk right in and take my shots
because I have God in my mind.

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I'm thinking of my people being free
and I can help with just one fight.


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