Ask all those folks in Africa if they’re interested in coming over here as slaves and let me know what they say.....Probably “Yes. Better than starving here, being murdered in tribal wars and waiting for Muslims to capture us and sending us to who-knows-where.”
13) “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”
— 1974 response when asked for his impression of Africa, after Ali returned to the United States from Zaire, where he fought George Foreman.