A biography for Kareem Abdul-Jabbarhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not going to disappear.”
“My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.”
“You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.”
“Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.”
“I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.”
“I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.”
“When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.”
“My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.”
“I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.”