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I enjoy seeing new places.

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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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I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.
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Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can see better where we're going, what sudden drop to avoid, where the cool water is running.
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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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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
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I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
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I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.
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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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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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Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.
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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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I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
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More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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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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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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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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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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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 rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
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