I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.
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lack of strength, not a lack of know... JASON KIDD Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas. CHIP KIDD Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance
run. JASON KIDD It's always too early to quit. JASON KIDD A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. JASON KIDD If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets
even a s Michelangelo painted, or... JASON KIDD There's stranger sex than sex with strangers. KRIS KIDD I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both vis... CHIP KIDD A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out... JASON KIDD I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games. JASON KIDD Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and ... JASON KIDD When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a ... JASON KIDD The ball touched the paint a lot of times. When we talk about touching the paint, the ball touches t... JASON KIDD I just tried to play the game the right way. As you get older, Father Time is undefeated. JASON KIDD Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're tal... JASON KIDD As you get older you appreciate the triple-double a little more. It would be really nice to get one ... JASON KIDD This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to... WILLIAM KIDD I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options. JASON KIDD I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have goo... WILLIAM KIDD You heard so many horror stories, ... There was a gentleman holding onto his family and onto a pole.... JASON KIDD From the first year when I got here, we are a lot deeper, ... And offensively, we are off the charts... JASON KIDD I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there, so as a player... JASON KIDD It's night and day. It's two different players. JASON KIDD That's the draw. Coach Brown can draw. He can put 'em in the seats. JASON KIDD I don't know what's going to happen. The business always gets in the way of basketball. If there was... JASON KIDD I have mixed emotions, ... I'm sad to be leaving Dallas. I thought we had a good opportunity here. A... JASON KIDD I thought I was trying to do my best and what he wanted me to do, ... I was getting the grasp of it.... JASON KIDD We have a long ways to go. We didn't play any defense. Again, it's no gray area with us. If we don't... JASON KIDD On paper you have some big names, but this team just got put together two months ago. It's still try... JASON KIDD I think a veteran team never panics, and we did not panic. They made a run, and we expected they wou... JASON KIDD I'm glad we got another game (tonight) and it's not in Memphis. JASON KIDD The big thing for us is to get back to winning and look at what we're not doing. That's taking care ... JASON KIDD We're a team. We've played without guys that have been hurt for six weeks. Guys are going to have to... JASON KIDD We went to small ball, JASON KIDD The season's too young. It's 14 games into the season. Nobody will remember this one. JASON KIDD There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that wil... JASON KIDD No effort. From top to bottom, we just didn't come with any effort. JASON KIDD I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options, JASON KIDD We came out of the blocks and we were going in the right direction and then we took a breath and the... JASON KIDD