I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

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.

The 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.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.