"A lot of wars are fought between..." - Quote by Muhammad Ali

“I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.”

“Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.”

“I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.”

“Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.”

“I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me,He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.”

“You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.”

“Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.”

“The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.”

“Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.”