Beast the bull, the bull is the strongest, bull hits the hardest, but the matador is the smartest.
Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
The flushing of blood and the freedom of our people comes before money.
Like I was on an airplane the other day and there was a real turbo and I asked the pilot,
was these crash conditions? He said no, but I was fighting to death. He said,
kid I've been flying 36 years, these wings are made to expand 17 feet,
they're only giving about 8 feet, there's nothing to worry about. But I was worried
because I didn't understand. So I've been in boxing 16 years.
I don't hate rattlesnakes, I don't hate tigers, I just know I can't get along with them.
After learning the nature of the snake and the tiger, I don't want to try to eat with them
or sleep with them because I know that he might bite me. Clean up your own neighborhoods,
do something for yourself. When you get out and travel and knowledge and
when you get knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and when you've been around the world a couple of times like me
and talking to wise men like you, newspaper men and on all these
TV shows and this
makes you wise and intelligent. When you go back to these little one-horse towns,
you just can't stay there two hours. You'll say, after a day I'm ready to get out.
Me and my wife and my children get a two-room apartment and one bathroom, one kitchen
and be happy. Really? Yes, ma'am. God made us in his image.
Now who are we to make him the way we want him? He made us, but we're going to turn around and make him.
Well, I don't know. I'm not really worried about boxing. The more I'm
in the spiritual works that Elijah Muhammad preaches, preaching the word
of Allah, our God, I forget about it.
I'm not worried about sports. It's not in my blood. I don't eat rice steaks no more.
They make you vicious. I just eat lamb now and fish or holy foods and
this keeps me from being vicious-feeling and I really don't miss it.
No people can be free if they can't feed themselves.
No people can be free if they don't clothe themselves. Negroes are 22 million people,
Elijah Muhammad teaches us.
We don't make shoe strings. 22 million people don't have a toothpick factory.
22 million people, if you white people closed the grocery stores tomorrow,
we would starve to death.
It was close.


All these people who are very, very good at riding syndrome,