“I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.”
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“I think I'll take a bath in his blood.”
“I never think of physical fighting. It's always spiritual. Fighting is spiritual.”
“I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.”
“The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.”
“One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.”
“I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.”
“I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.”
“People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”
“I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.”
“I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.”
“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”
“The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.”
“I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.”
“I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.”
“I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.”
“I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.”
“I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.”
“If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.”
“I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.”