You cant win unless you learn how to lose. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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 theyre also practicing math. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Todays youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldnt take that attitude forward with them. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967