Hana ali biography heroe

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Ali, Hana Yasmeen, photograph.

Hana Yasmeen Ali, the daughter of boxing great Muhammad Ali, helped her father write The Soul of a Butterfly, Reflections on Life's Journey. Published in 2004, the tome is less a recap of the three-time world heavyweight champion's dramatic career than a collection of inspirational anecdotes, spiritual reflections, and even poems that seem to illustrate why the elder Ali is one of the world's most admired and beloved athletes.

"There are already so many books written about him," Ali told Vicky Allan of Glasgow's Sunday Herald. "And they're pretty much all the same …they're just recapping his life. Only, my father was more than just a boxer, you know?

He has aspirations and many, many stories; he has virtues and morals that he lives by."

Ali was born when her father was one of the world's richest athletes, a major celebrity and boxing legend who was also one of the first African America