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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.
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I got all A's and was hated for it I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
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I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.
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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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Yoga is just good for you.
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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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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
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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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Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.
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When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.
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If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
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