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There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
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Basketball Coach
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New York City
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I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.
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I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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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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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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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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I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.
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Actor Mike Warren [was my former teammate], who was in Hill Street Blues. There are more, but it's starting to sound like a team reunion at Red Lobster. They were a great bunch of guys and we accomplished a lot together. That's something you don't forget.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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I needed to go to class I needed to go to practice I needed to have a life away from basketball.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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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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Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
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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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