Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.
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David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.
Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.
Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali.
Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people? He was the leader of a nation, the leader of Black America. As a young black, at times I was ashamed of my color; I was ashamed of my hair. And Ali made me proud.
'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muhammad Ali, is Mr. Mann's first movie with feeling; his overwhelming love of its subject will turn audiences into exuberant, thrilled fight crowds.
Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him.
Ali helped raise black people in this country out of mental slavery. The entire experience of being black changed for millions of people because of Ali.
'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.
Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.