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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

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.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

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.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar