Black Quotes by Muhammad Ali

I want to be the first black man on the moon

— Muhammad Ali

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

— Muhammad Ali

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours;…

— Muhammad Ali

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to…

— Muhammad Ali

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing…

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead…

— Muhammad Ali

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

— Muhammad Ali

For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had…

— Muhammad Ali

I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason. Then slavery came and…

— Muhammad Ali

Everything the black people are doing comes from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed. They are black now, they don't want to be called…

— Muhammad Ali

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until…

— Muhammad Ali

If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and…

— Muhammad Ali

I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like…

— Muhammad Ali

Women are not equal with men, that's sure. When the woman is in danger she always looks to the man for help.…

— Muhammad Ali

How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white…

— Muhammad Ali

I'd like to say that Muslims are never in violence with white people. It's the black man who love you. See, you…

— Muhammad Ali

I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair…

— Muhammad Ali

We are not Black Muslims we are Muslims. You see, you have Catholics. You have Chinese Catholics, you have Indian Catholics, you…

— Muhammad Ali

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat.…

— Muhammad Ali

The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I…

— Muhammad Ali

Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200…

— Muhammad Ali

I need to be famous so I can talk about religion. I can talk about God. It's an expensive price that I…

— Muhammad Ali

Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a…

— Muhammad Ali

It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming…

— Muhammad Ali

Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Muhammad Ali

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite…

— Muhammad Ali

Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it.…

— Muhammad Ali

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media…

— Muhammad Ali

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free,…

— Muhammad Ali

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with,…

— Muhammad Ali

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to…

— Muhammad Ali

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

— Muhammad Ali