When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.
Kareem Abdul-JabbarI don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time - defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.
Kareem Abdul-JabbarToday's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
Kareem Abdul-JabbarThe Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar