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.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

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.

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

In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.