"When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden."

Positive, People, Burden

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"When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden."

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"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."

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"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

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"I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA."

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"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."

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"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."

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"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."

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"When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden."

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"As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit."

Success, Successful

"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."

Sacrifice,

"The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done."

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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions."

Johannes Stark, German Physicist

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"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive."

Mike Johanns, American Politician

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