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It was the first publication to show how beautiful black people are. And in color? On the front page? Back then articles about blacks were usually way in the back.


Zakiyyah Muhammad

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KELLY JONES People think black is one color and it's not. There are blue-blacks, brown-blacks, metallic blacks, ...
BONNIE YOUNG The reason it didn't do well is because it was black and white. Back then, as long as they were in c...
CONRAD BROOKS We were one of the very first people way back in '69 to do fully acoustic and electric sets within t...
GRAHAM NASH Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" His Jedi me...
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Mr. Johnson changed the color of American media. Before Ebony, before Mr. Johnson, blacks were not s...
LERONE BENNETT Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down t...
JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attenti...
JAMES A. FORBES I went back around the front again and that's when you saw people stacked on top of each other tryin...
BRIAN BUTLER Kate Bigelow shot a very competitive 41 on the front, then shot a 49 on the back. I know that she fe...
GARY GAVETTE I'll have to read a few more of those articles to see exactly what was said, but I still feel the sa...
DONNIE EDWARDS You can really see Leonardo thinking on the paper. You can see how he first uses black chalk, and th...
CARMEN BAMBACH We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE I hope people understand how stupid segregation is. People should never judge a book by its color. B...
EUGENE RICHARDSON The males usually come back first and then they're followed by the females.
JULIE VICTORIA I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and ...
MARCUS GARVEY We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not ex...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is so...
LEONTYNE PRICE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but ma...
BARBARA WALTERS When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE These conventions are staged for television, but it's not very good television, and most people are ...
HOWARD KURTZ I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE We were pleased the way our kids hung in there in the first game and came back to win it.
MARK PERCY There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO I wanted to cast someone with brown skin who portrays a standard of beauty. You know when it comes t...
MALCOLM LEE You've just got to go with what's in front of you. That's why you all should turn the page on me. Yo...
BARRY BONDS Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER It's been on the front page and in the other media. People want to know.
ABRAHAM TORRES No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN To bring home the Ashes will be fantastic, not just for us but for every sport in this country. Cric...
MATTHEW HOGGARD I got back the articles and money on Tuesday.
LI JIE In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
ERIC S. RAYMOND Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and where does this shit put us. How just by one rel...
DEYTH BANGER The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and where does this shit put us. How just by one rel...
DEYTH BANGER I don't know how it went in. From its trajectory, I was sure it was going to hit the front of the ri...
ANDRE MCGEE An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. W...
SNOOP DOGG My God, Sage. Your eyes. How have I never noticed them?"

That uncomfortable feeling was s...
RICHELLE MEAD People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.
FREDRIK BACKMAN This is where I played the first four years of my career in the big leagues, ... and it was a beauti...
JOSE CRUZ Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI We're very into black. Black is the new black. Black is back in a major way.
IRENKA JAKUBIAK If people are working together on a project and one person starts the document using Word, then othe...
MICHAEL CHERRY Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We didn't play the front very good. Our No.2 player shot 44 on the front ... No. 5 shoots 44 on the ...
BOBBY DUNN So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move moun...
TERRY PRATCHETT People will always show their true selves in the end.
LEONA LEWIS I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 ...
TA-NEHISI COATES I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how ...
BRENDAN I. KOERNER I just about lost my mind when I heard that, ... We pre-filmed the first show in February and then w...
JODY EVANS It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the enc...
NEIL TENNANT We were playing to show people how New Orleans feels -- the resolve to push on and come back. And, a...
WAYNE GANDY The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's ...
EARL WARREN The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's...
EARL WARREN The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's ...
BARBARA WALTERS It was like being on The Hulk at Universal Studios. You're real high, then you go back down and then...
CAROLYN PECK Rocky is basically on his own -- it's very touching. People that were in the first one that you didn...
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MUHAMMAD Don't disappoint the world,
MUHAMMAD Love of the world is the root of all evil
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MUHAMMAD O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him
MUHAMMAD The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr
MUHAMMAD Poverty is my pride
MUHAMMAD God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts
MUHAMMAD We have been encouraged to take advantage of our freedom, and the media has taken the authorities at...
MUHAMMAD That person is not a perfect Muslim who eateth his fill, and leaveth his neighbors hungry
MUHAMMAD All actions are judged by the motive prompting them
MUHAMMAD The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your...
MUHAMMAD Presidential sites are totally forbidden, ... It's a red line. Totally.
MUHAMMAD The nearest to me are the abstinent, whoever they are, wherever they are
MUHAMMAD Do you beat your own wife as you would a slave? That must you not do
MUHAMMAD Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punis...
MUHAMMAD Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity;...
MUHAMMAD The most excellent jihad (struggle) is that for the conquest of self
MUHAMMAD This world is a prison for the Faithful, but a Paradise for unbelievers
MUHAMMAD I remember putting together mix tapes for my own imaginary radio station - WJAM - when I was a child...
MUHAMMAD One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer
MUHAMMAD When you lend, have the borrower sign a paper before witnesses
MUHAMMAD No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself
MUHAMMAD Especially if you are well-to-do, see that no one goes hungry or naked
MUHAMMAD Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and...
MUHAMMAD He is the most perfect Muslim whose disposition is best; and the best of you are they who behave bes...
MUHAMMAD Cursed is this world and cursed is all that is in this world, except the remembrance of God and that...
MUHAMMAD Give the laborer his wage before his perspiration be dry
MUHAMMAD The creation is as God's family; for its sustenance is from Him: therefore the most beloved unto God...
MUHAMMAD Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first
MUHAMMAD He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from...
MUHAMMAD The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
MUHAMMAD ALI Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.
MUHAMMAD ALI I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.
MUHAMMAD ALI If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would h...
MUHAMMAD ALI You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
MUHAMMAD ALI No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that su...
MUHAMMAD ALI White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
MUHAMMAD ALI Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
MUHAMMAD ALI When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.
MUHAMMAD ALI The white man is destroying the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much d...
MUHAMMAD ALI I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'W...
MUHAMMAD ALI My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The...
MUHAMMAD ALI You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep ...
MUHAMMAD ALI Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airpor...
MUHAMMAD ALI All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given t...
MUHAMMAD ALI To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that y...
MUHAMMAD ALI I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was th...
MUHAMMAD ALI Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
MUHAMMAD ALI I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one ...
MUHAMMAD ALI I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain...
MUHAMMAD ALI Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
MUHAMMAD ALI My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. Al...
MUHAMMAD ALI God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the...
MUHAMMAD ALI No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
MUHAMMAD ALI There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
MUHAMMAD ALI I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
MUHAMMAD ALI I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, ...
MUHAMMAD ALI I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!
MUHAMMAD ALI At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don&...
MUHAMMAD ALI I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the...
MUHAMMAD ALI When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Oly...
MUHAMMAD ALI I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
MUHAMMAD ALI I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beaut...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the r...
MUHAMMAD ALI No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white gi...
MUHAMMAD ALI I shook up the world, I shook up the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
MUHAMMAD ALI Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
MUHAMMAD ALI To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S....
MUHAMMAD ALI I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brin...
MUHAMMAD ALI It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
MUHAMMAD ALI The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep...
MUHAMMAD ALI A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have se...
MUHAMMAD ALI I don't have to be what you want me to be.
MUHAMMAD ALI I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
MUHAMMAD ALI My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
MUHAMMAD ALI Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep co...
MUHAMMAD ALI I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in...
MUHAMMAD ALI Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI Don't feel sorry for me.
MUHAMMAD ALI I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow,...
MUHAMMAD ALI America is the greatest country in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when J...
MUHAMMAD ALI I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people ...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.
MUHAMMAD ALI I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better...
MUHAMMAD ALI Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating...
MUHAMMAD ALI I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That&#...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's not bragging if you can back it up.
MUHAMMAD ALI Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
MUHAMMAD ALI I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL God is not a dead equation!
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile:...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is divers...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
MUHAMMAD HIJAZI Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS We have people who are based in their emotions and so they're hurt. It doesn't hurt me, a fool doesn...
AGIN MUHAMMAD Always could get somebody's goat if you just talk about his mama, and that's basically what you have...
AGIN MUHAMMAD Protesting is really similar to war. If you get the best lick in this time, then you've got to get y...
AGIN MUHAMMAD I understand the reactions, but it's not for me to reduce myself to that level.
AGIN MUHAMMAD Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friend...
MUHAMMAD ALI Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. Bu...
MUHAMMAD ALI Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But...
MUHAMMAD ALI Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS What keeps me going is goals.
MUHAMMAD ALI Where do you think I'd be next week if I didn't know how to shout and holler and make the public tak...
MUHAMMAD ALI I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
MUHAMMAD ALI I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your li...
MUHAMMAD ALI I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
MUHAMMAD ALI No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
MUHAMMAD ALI I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
MUHAMMAD ALI I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
MUHAMMAD ALI Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...
MUHAMMAD ALI If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
MUHAMMAD ALI Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desir...
MUHAMMAD ALI The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
MUHAMMAD ALI I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my ...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
MUHAMMAD ALI Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
MUHAMMAD ALI The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and com...
MUHAMMAD ALI My toughest fight was with my first wife.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
MUHAMMAD ALI God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.
MUHAMMAD ALI I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my nam...
MUHAMMAD ALI To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
MUHAMMAD ALI Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can...
MUHAMMAD ALI Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
MUHAMMAD ALI Don't count the days, make the days count.
MUHAMMAD ALI Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.
MUHAMMAD ALI Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
MUHAMMAD ALI Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm a baaaadd man!!
MUHAMMAD ALI I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fig...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
MUHAMMAD ALI Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the nigh...
MUHAMMAD ALI I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder...
MUHAMMAD ALI I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
MUHAMMAD ALI Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to th...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We o...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our soc...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the ci...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Human beings have enormous resilience.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abjec...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us trem...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innov...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
MUHAMMAD ALI