A good listener truly wants to know the speaker. |
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. |
After being with the Russians and the Germans and others, ... their skin was white, and he was put on sort of a pedestal among them. When he came back here, he realized that over there, they didn't look at him for his color, only for his attributes as a boxer. He got a little different after that, because he came back here and things were still the same. |
Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. ...It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard. |
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. |
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained |
Certainly, these emerging technologies can lead to better communications in the future, |
Communication works for those who work at it. |
Communication works for those who work at it. |
He came around to the neighborhood before his fight with Jimmy Ellis (in 1971), |
He came into town just to get those 6-inch custard pies, |
He was a really friendly kid, |
He'd run around, pretend like he was boxing everybody, ... Everyone kind of laughed at how he was. But the main thing I would say about him, he was so focused on it. |
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection |
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection |