Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

It hurt to even bump into him.

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.

An inferiority complex is acquired in childhood

And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly."Assuredly, " she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

MacKensie, much as men don't like to share this fact, we rarely die from not getting off.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Give thanks to the most high.

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.

I used to have an imaginary friend named Michael.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.