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where we'd just been an hour ago,
I'd never seen such a downpour.
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And we rode back
through the African night
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from the boxing ring into Kinshasa
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and there were crowds on the roads
standing in the pouring rain
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leaping up and down because
news had got around that Ali had won.
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(Mailer) 'He stayed up all night
from what I heard,
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'and in the morning he spoke to
African groups who'd come to see him,
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'and they more than revered him,
he was a god.
1:10:29
'And he spoke to them
very simply and beautifully,
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'and he said,
"Afro-Americans, in America,
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'"we're not as good as you are.
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'"Some of us are richer than you are,
1:10:41
'"but you have a dignity
in your poverty that we don't have.
1:10:45
'"We are spoiled in America,
1:10:47
'"we have lost what you still have
in Africa and you must keep that."
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'And I thought, on top of everything
else he's a political leader
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'and he's gonna be
a great political leader.'
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I have a lot of things to do
in the Black neighbourhoods,
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we have a lot of problems
we have to solve among ourselves.
1:11:06
Prostitution, dope, gang fights.
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Knowledge of self. Black people
have no knowledge of themselves.
1:11:12
We have been made
just like white people mentally.
1:11:15
White people have made us
so much like them
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it's hard to teach them
about themselves,
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it's hard to teach them to unite
and marry and be with their own.
1:11:24
Black people
are now like white people,
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we have to re-brainwash 'em now,
1:11:29
teach them about themselves
and their history and language,
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to do something for themselves
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and quit begging white people
for things they should do themselves.
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I never heard Ali say
he would never fight again.
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If he had said it,
and usually he told the truth,
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I wouldn't have believed it.
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He was born to fight,
born for the ring and loved it,
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he truly loved fighting.
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And...as happens with people who love
a thing too much, it destroys them.
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It was Oscar Wilde that said
you destroy the thing you love.