"I'm so pretty."

"I'm a showman, I'm an entertainer."

"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."

"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 …"

"Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it and I don't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it means 'beloved of God,' and I insist that people use it when they speak to me and of me."