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People Quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
- As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
- I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
- I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
- Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
- I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
- 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.…
- But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened my eyes to…
- I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.
- People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of…
- The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.
- The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore.
- With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.
- Music is really something that makes people whole.
- I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
- 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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