Muhammad Ali spent years training to become the greatest boxer

the world had ever seen,

but only moments to create the shortest poem.

Ali captivated Harvard's graduating class in 1975

with his messag

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I'm Clint Smith and this is "Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class."

You, it seems, are the manifestation

of several lifetimes of toil.

Brown v. Board in flesh.

Most days the classroom feels

like an

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