It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.
In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The...
I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.
I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about...
First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead from the start.
First with the head and then with the heart.
In each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.
Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them
When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul clean and lit.
The smile, madame, is used by humans to hide the truth, the artist is only interested to reveal the truth.
The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything they touched. They slashed and burned the wilderness so that they...
The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature.
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!
Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.
In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.
I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfa...
Absoloodle not
My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men
Every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.
While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years...