Muhammad Ali Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Cocky, Greatness, Names

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

• If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

  Muhammad Ali

  Thinking, Self, Goal

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

• Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

  Muhammad Ali

  Justice, Diversity, Understanding

• I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

  Muhammad Ali

  Justice, Diversity, Trying

• Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiration, Dark, Justice

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2010

• I did not disregard my culture, if I did, it was the white American culture, and I accepted my true culture, when I accepted Mohammed Ali, because this is a black name, Islam is the black man's religion, and so I would like to say, that I would like to clarify that point that I reclaimed my real culture, and that's being a black man and wearing a black name with a black body, and not a white name, so I would never say that I didn't disown my culture.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, Men, White

  Source: thefederalist.com

• I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

  Muhammad Ali

  White, Culture, Way

  Source: thefederalist.com

• The teachings of Elijah Muhammad on how black people have been brainwashed.How they've been taught to love white and hate black, how we've been robbed of our names in slavery.We were robbed of our culture, we were robbed of our true history. So it left us a walking dead man.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hate, Teaching, Men

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

• 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.

  Muhammad Ali

  Black And White, Years, America

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2016.

• I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Baby, Race

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2016.

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