"Don't count the days, make the days count."

"I don't smoke, but I keep a match box in my pocket. When my heart slips toward sin, I burn a match and heat my palm. Then I say to myself, 'Ali, you can't stand this heat, so how will you stand the he…"

"Black people have got to be given their freedom, their independence. We've got to be given land. We've got to be given our own schools, our own colleges, our own universities, our own industries, our …"

"I ain't got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."

"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."