When We Were Kings
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He looks little in comparison
to what I'm getting from it!

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But if I think about just me...
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George Foreman knocked out
Joe Frazier like he was God.

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He knocked out Ken Norton.
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And the white press,
the power structure

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rank me to get tired in five or six,
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then I go in like Norton
and the rest of them and get scared.

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But my God controls the universe.
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(Plimpton) 'I was interested
in people called "féticheurs".

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'They are witches, soothsayers,
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'and in Western Africa
almost everybody has one.

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'They go to a witch doctor
the way we would go to a dentist.'

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Muhammad Ali had been
to Mobutu's féticheur.

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And...
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He had said that...
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The féticheur had said
that a woman with trembling hands

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would somehow get to Foreman.
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A succubus.
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'And that impressed me enormously.'

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