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Islam is about finding your own space.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
Actor
Author
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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Lew Alcindor
Islam
Findings
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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
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When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.
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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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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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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.
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Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
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I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
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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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I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
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I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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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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Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.
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For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.
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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'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.
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