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Sonny Liston is America’s curse. He is the black menace sprung from white racist stereotypes. And he likes it that way.
that the worst thing a threatened man can do is show fear.
“One forgets that though a clown never imitates a wise man, the wise man can imitate the clown.”
“I am America,” Clay will proudly declare. “I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”
But every son comes to believe he can be more than his father, that he is not beholden to his position in the line of his ancestors, not tethered to that soul-crushing concatenation formed in a past beyond his control, and Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was no exception.
