If you want to grow pickles, it’s right to ask for cucumber seeds, even though a cucumber is not a pickle.

There's a mighty large Ali sized difference between pickles vs cucumbers and slave name vs ancestor name.

What I mean is that the only known way to produce a Muhammad Ali is to start with a Cassius Clay, even though there is an important distinction between them.

We are not garnered respect, within birth, but the parents who choose to bring us into this life are.

What is that even supposed to mean?