"I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali
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More by Muhammad Ali
“Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.”
“My main fight is for freedom and equality.”
“When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.”
More on Language
“All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!”
“You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.”
“If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out”
More on Education
“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.”
“All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.”
“My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.”