The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete. Rumaan Alam More Quotes by Rumaan Alam More Quotes From Rumaan Alam It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history's grave injustices, there were still great lives. Rumaan Alam great conscience remember history History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story. Rumaan Alam parents black history children When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased. Rumaan Alam child me family father I married the man I love when the state of California said I could. We made a family through adoption, as New York State said we could. From the outside, our family - two dads, two sons via adoption - seems like an experiment, but what family isn't an experiment? Rumaan Alam new man family love I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made. Rumaan Alam dad family broken joy