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Amare Stoudemire – Beyond the Exterior
By Gordon Clark | August 5, 2007
Business Mogul – Student
Father – Prodigy
Philanthropist – Environmentalist
Dreamer – Pragmatist
It would be entirely cliché to dive into this cover-boy profile commenting on how Phx Suns franchise hoopster Amare Stoudemire is a young man with a an old spirit. How he’s wise beyond his 24 years; an innovator; a man-child; et cetera, et cetera.
But cliché is entirely appropriate.
Amare has a countenance all his own. A father, CEO, activist (www.thatsamare.com), student, eco-conscious citizen, Stoud has seen a lot with those young eyes. And he’s taken notes.
Someone once told me to always stay positive and focused.
My life is better than a movie. Look out for my book soon about my life.
The world would be a better place if we all just used socially and environmentally conscious energy.
I just finished reading my human geography book, 4th edition.
There’s not one person who could have guessed I used be a skateboarder and a trick biker.
STAT. When people look back they will see a positive person and a person who was being himself.
Getting serious rotation in the iPod as we speak is Makaveli.
Favorite eats at my restaurant downtown (for the moment): the boneless chicken wings, grilled salmon.
If I left this earth tomorrow I’d want my kids to know that I was a soul survivor and a man of truth.
Career? If I weren’t playing basketball I’d be in college, getting a degree.
Keeping an online diary: It’s only right for me to tell the world about my life experience.
Where? Sickest party is, without question, New York.
Fatherhood. Has the outlook changed? It hasn’t, my outlook has been the same. I always have been this way.
My first job? NBA, age 18.
I love fashion because my mom was a model, and she passed fashion onto me. P.S. my pops was smooth as well.
Black Jesus on the neck – It holds a different meaning because through history, it says that Jesus is black.
Tupac Shakur, he was one of my role models growing up.
Academically, I’m pretty dialed-in to History, human geography.iPhone or Blackberry? iPhone.
“Each 1, Teach 1”* – My goals with Each 1, Teach 1 is to build an academy for the kids of poverty, and to make it a boarding school and fly kids in from broken homes to give them a great education and pay teachers more than what they get paid.
When I die, all you have to do is read my tattoos, and you will know a lot about me and what I lived for.
EVERYONE! Amare’s Downtown - Located across the street from US Airways Suns Arena.
I would play one on one with Oscar Robinson, just to learn from him… We’d both have triple doubles.
I’m trying to leave the world as a legend, a la Tupac Shakur, Michael Jordan, Malcolm X. Black, successful men.
* For more information on Each 1, Teach 1, visit www. thatsamare.com
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