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- Beg your pardon?
- You would continue boxing
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- even if you lose?
- I beg your pardon?
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- (Laughter)
- You don't think about losing?
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No. But thank you.
Nice talking to you.
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(Ali) Flying over the Sahara desert.
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An African airline with all African
stewardesses, all African pilots.
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This is the first free feeling
I had in a long time.
:18:26
Ain't this something, flying in
an airplane with Black pilots?
:18:30
All Black crew? This is strange
to the American Negro.
:18:34
We never dreamed of this!
:18:36
Every time we watch TV they show us
Tarzan and the natives and jungles,
:18:41
they never told us that Africans
were more intelligent than we are.
:18:46
They speak English,
French and African.
:18:49
We can't even speak English good.
:18:52
(Speaking French)
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Ain't this beautiful? I'm free!
:19:08
(Man) Fantastic!
:19:10
I'm free.
:19:12
# Now, I want everybody
:19:14
# To repeat after me
:19:17
# If you don't know who you are
and where your place in life is
:19:20
# Just say to yourself, I am!
:19:24
# Somebody!
:19:26
# I am!
:19:28
# Somebody!
:19:29
# I may be poor
:19:33
# But I am somebody #
:19:40
(Translator) 'It was a great joy
:19:42
'to see that the championship
was going to happen in Africa.
:19:47
'People were so happy.
:19:49
'At last the world was
paying attention to our continent.
:19:53
'Yes, we knew Muhammad Ali
as a boxer,
:19:56
'but more importantly
for his political stance.