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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
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New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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Pride was his life force for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.
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More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.
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I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.
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Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.
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Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
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But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice Bunchy Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.
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