Muhammad Ali Black Quotations

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

Who would have thought, when they came to the fight, that they'd witness a launchin' of a black satellite

I want to be the first black man on the moon

I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. Then slavery came and calls of aggression. But we've been there 600 years and there ain't no peace between black and whites because the cultures are different - like the Chinese and Mexicans cannot integrate: the music is different, the eating is different.

It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America.But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.