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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!
:54:35
I just got to pound him.
:54:37
I'm not gonna even realise...
:54:39
I might look at his face
and say, "How'd I do that?"
:54:42
Allah, God, I'm his tool. God got
in me on purpose for my people.
:54:47
God has made this man
look like a little kid.
:54:50
His so-called right hand ain't
nothing now, I don't even feel 'em!
:54:55
I walk right in and take my shots
because I have God in my mind.
:54:59
I'm thinking of my people being free
and I can help with just one fight.
:55:03
He looks little in comparison
to what I'm getting from it!
:55:07
But if I think about just me...
:55:10
George Foreman knocked out
Joe Frazier like he was God.
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He knocked out Ken Norton.
:55:15
And the white press,
the power structure
:55:18
rank me to get tired in five or six,
:55:20
then I go in like Norton
and the rest of them and get scared.
:55:24
But my God controls the universe.
:55:36
(Plimpton) 'I was interested
in people called "féticheurs".
:55:40
'They are witches, soothsayers,
:55:42
'and in Western Africa
almost everybody has one.
:55:45
'They go to a witch doctor
the way we would go to a dentist.'
:55:50
Muhammad Ali had been
to Mobutu's féticheur.
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And...
:55:59
He had said that...