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And for me that's always been...
That's Ali.
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You love him even when
you turn your back on him.
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I heard him once talking to the
Harvard senior class commencement.
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He gave this extraordinary speech,
you know he was dyslexic,
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and he would look
at a paper and say,
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"What does this word mean?"
I'd say, "Appendicitis."
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He'd say, "How d'you get a word
like appendicitis? It's so long."
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Here he was delivering a lecture,
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senior class day with these
1,000, 2,000 Harvard graduates,
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and...he had these little cards
in front of him.
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He gave this wonderful speech
about he hadn't had the opportunity
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but they had and they should use that
to make the world a better place.
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It was moving and funny, and a great
roar of appreciation at the end.
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Then someone shouted out,
"Give us a poem!"
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And everybody quieted down.
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Now, the shortest poem according
to Bartlett's Quotations is called
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"On the Antiquity of Microbes"
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and the poem is "Adam had 'em."
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Pretty short.
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But Muhammad Ali's poem was
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"Me, we."
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Two words.
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I wrote Bartlett's Quotations
and I said, "Look, that's shorter."
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It stands for something more
than the poem itself.
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"Me, we." What a fighter he was.
And what a man.
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# Refugee cat... Ali, boma ye
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# Yes, yes... Rumble in the jungle
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# Come on!
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# Root to the fruit
more bass than Bootsy Collins
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# You versus me
that's like Ali versus Foreman
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# God's act, stand back and watch
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# Devil's time-out
can't be timed with no Swatch watch
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# Who I am, the Black Abraham