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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
Actor
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Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Film Producer
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New York City
New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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Lew Alcindor
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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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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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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've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time - defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.
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When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
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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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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.
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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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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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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're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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