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we have a lot of problems
we have to solve among ourselves.
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Prostitution, dope, gang fights.
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Knowledge of self. Black people
have no knowledge of themselves.
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We have been made
just like white people mentally.
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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.
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Black people
are now like white people,
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we have to re-brainwash 'em now,
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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.
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It's the other way round,
what you love destroys you.
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(Mailer) 'He came back,
he had 22 fights.
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'Some were most honourable,
some very difficult.
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'Some were comedies and farces.
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'He hurt himself in those 22 fights
after the fight in Africa.'
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(Plimpton) 'There is a tendency
to look at Muhammad and say
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'he's wounded, he's ill.
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'There are no intellectual deficits,
it's a motor skills problem
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'and he doesn't try
to hide his condition.
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'He goes out and lets
the whole world see it.
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'He doesn't feel sorry for himself
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'and there's really no reason for
anybody else to feel sorry for him.
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'He loves being Muhammad Ali,
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'he truly believes
that he's doing God's work
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'and he's as happy with each day
as anybody I know.'