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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. "

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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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 think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice. "

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" Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. "

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" High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream. "

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" Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak. "

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" You can't win unless you learn how to lose. "

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" I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home. "

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" I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way. "

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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 think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan. "

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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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" Your mind is what makes everything else work. "

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" My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. "

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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 try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. "

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" I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me. "

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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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" My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics. "

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" I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution. "

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" Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary. "

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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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" Islam is about finding your own space. "

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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 did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. "

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