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Belinda/Khalilah Ali: [talking about Don King's reputation] Don King talks black, lives white and thinks green. Don King: Muhammad Ali, the People's Champion, my black brother! I need you. I need your strength. I need you to find a way to get George to stay. Be Moses in reverse - do NOT let my people go. Keep them the fuck right here, in Egypt, if you pardon my Swahili.

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Drew Bundini Brown: [approaches] I'm called Bundini. Rhymes with Houdini. He was a Jew too. Some people call me Fast Black. Some call me Daddy Mac. Gave Sugar Ray Robinson my power for seven years. My voodoo. My magic. Now Shorty done sent me here to work for you. Cassius Clay: Who's Shorty? Bundini: [looks in the distance] I call him Shorty. Call him Shorty 'cause he like 'em circumcised. Original people. Like Moses. And I was a babe in a basket too. Born on a doorstep with a note across my chest that read "You do the best you can for him, world." I wanna be your inspiration. Your motivator in your corner. Can I be in your corner, young man? Cassius Clay: Sonny Liston, you ain't no champ! You a chump! Cassius Clay and Drew Bundini Brown: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. HAAHHH!!! Rumble, young man, Rumble. Clay: [addresses reporters] Y'all wanna lose y'all money? Then you bet it on Sonny. [points to him] He know I'm great. [looks back at reporters] He will fall in eight! [tau

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Howard Cosell: [to the camera] We'll be right back. Muhammad Ali: You want some food for that thing? Cosell: How could you do something like that to a man you revere? Ali: Cos' it's funny. Muhammad Ali: Man, if they came to me tomorrow and say, "We want you to fight Joe Frazier. Madison Square Garden. Millions and millionses of dollars. Here's your license back." I will tell them, "I will never fight again." Howard Cosell: Frankly, Muhammad, I'm surprised, because unless you- or until you fight Frazier-- Ali: Cosell, are you losin' your hearing along with your hair? Don't put no question to it, man. I done told you, I'm through fightin'. I got a much bigger contender, a much heavier opponent. I'm fightin' the entire US government. Cosell: Do you think you're going to jail? Ali: I don't know. I don't know. Cosell: Joe Frazier told me on this show that he could knock you out. Ali: [irritated] See, there you go agitatin'. You should've asked Smokin' Joe what have he been smokin'? That boy