Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic My personal style signifiers are my beanies. From Louis Vuitton to Acne Studios, I always have one on. Acne used to do oversized ones: on everybody else\u2019s head they feel like pillowcases, whereas for me \u2013 because my dreads are so big \u2013 they fit perfectly. \u00a0The last thing I bought and loved was a Lamy Dialog pen. It\u2019s my drawing pen, my writing pen, my thinking pen. I, like, love pens. Everyone goes to Japan for fashion but I go for stationery. I have a Romeo pen case from Itoya that\u2019s leather with suede inside. People are like, \u201cWhat have you got in there, your wallet?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cNah, it\u2019s my pens.\u201d\u00a0My interest in philanthropy comes from what I saw growing up. My grandfather built this church and people would congregate around that; my mother was a school teacher; my dad was a \u201ccommunity dad\u201d, helping everybody \u2013 my brother is also a\u00a0retired NFL player \u2013 get to football practice. As I got older, I always thought about others around me, and I continue to use my voice or put money towards it. Most recently I have been supporting the One Love Community Fridge in Brooklyn, which helps provide free healthy food to those in need.\u00a0My hero is [the American educator and author] Booker T Washington \u2013 the way he\u00a0thought about systems and frameworks, teaching people skills, creating schools and opportunities for knowledge. His life taught me about setting up infrastructure that outlasts the moment. Inspired by that,\u00a0I launched the \u201cBuilding Motions\u201d programme that focuses on creating secular spaces in communities of colour \u2013 spaces that are sacred in their own way: the first one will open in April. It\u2019s about creating permanence in a world that\u2019s\u00a0often trying to erase us.\u00a0And the best souvenir I\u2019ve brought home is a Japanese teapot from Nakatani, near the Kodaiji temple in Kyoto. I kept going back and forth, like \u201cMan, am I going to get this teapot?\u201d It\u2019s ceramic with a\u00a0greyish-white glaze. You\u00a0can see the rawness in it, the grains of it, and\u00a0it has this beautiful handmade wicker wraparound handle. But it\u2019s a functional object. I\u00a0don\u2019t want a thing that doesn\u2019t do a thing.\u00a0The place that means a lot to me is Hawaii, the first place I ever felt solitude. I\u00a0moved to East Honolulu in 2013 or 2014 because my wife\u2019s [artist Pele Bennett] family lives here, and I just love it. When I was playing in the NFL it was a great place to come after the season. I\u2019m involved in a lot of charity stuff out here: I donated $10,000 to the University of Hawai\u2019i to provide supplies and a photobooth for design students.\u00a0The best books I\u2019ve read in the past year are The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda and Lover Man by Alston Anderson. The first is about getting to the best design, where it feels simple but it\u2019s complex at the same time, doing away with what you don\u2019t need. And Lover Man feels like an anthology, where it skips around but it all makes sense.\u00a0A country that has inspired my work is Senegal, which I visited in\u00a02018 as a way of connecting with the ancestral pulse that runs through my work. I partnered with iamtheCODE to create digital literacy programmes for girls, focusing on empowerment through technology and education. Those moments shaped the way\u00a0I see my role \u2013 as a builder, not just for\u00a0structures but for futures.Change doesn\u2019t start with a donation \u2013 it starts with presence, with action. If\u00a0you\u00a0can\u2019t give money, give time, your voice:\u00a0be visible. I\u2019ve marched, spoken and volunteered at Palestine rallies, BLM and NFL \u201ctake a knee\u201d protests. It\u2019s like adding brushstrokes to a painting. Every small act\u00a0creates a bigger picture.\u00a0The podcast I\u2019m listening to\u00a0is The Institute of Black Imagination, where you get introduced to a lot of Black designers such as Sara\u00a0Zewde, Kenturah Davis and Dr Mabel O Wilson. My own design practice, Studio K\u00ebr, is rooted in the forms and language of the African diaspora, spanning installations, furniture, art and architecture. \u00a0My style icon is myself. Is that rude? I\u00a0like\u00a0the way I dress.The best gift I\u2019ve received is a tennis racket from my daughter. She knows I\u00a0love Roger Federer so she bought me a\u00a0Wilson Pro Staff designed by him.\u00a0The last music I downloaded was my own album, E-Nigg-ma, which I\u2019m dropping this year. It\u2019s a spoken-word album. I\u2019ve been listening to a\u00a0lot of that, just working out the kinks, making sure the mastering and sonics are right. In this practice, my musical side, I\u2019m\u00a0not really worried about streams: I\u2019m thinking about streams of consciousness and putting positivity into the world.\u00a0If\u00a0you\u00a0can\u2019t give money, give time, your voice: be\u00a0visibleA cause that\u2019s close to my heart is using design as a form of resistance. I donated $250,000 to the Rhode Island School of Design to create a scholarship fund specifically for students of colour. And\u00a0I\u2019ve been involved with Freedmen\u2019s Town, the first Black settlement in Houston, where I grew up, supporting efforts to preserve and revitalise historic Black communities through architecture. I\u2019m also\u00a0involved with Black Folks In Design, a\u00a0group that focuses on empowering Black\u00a0designers and increasing representation in the industry.\u00a0 \u00a0I have a collection of Maison Margiela. I\u00a0call myself \u201cMargiela Mike\u201d. My favourite find is a washed denim outfit with wide-leg jeans and a denim jacket with sprinkled paint on it. It\u2019s so fire. I love bags too, because I\u2019ve always got pens and my laptop on me.\u00a0My briefcase is from Porter-Yoshida & Co in Japan, and I just bought a\u00a0beautiful brown Issey Miyake tote bag.\u00a0Giving money to a good cause is the most natural, human thing to do. Throughout my body of work \u2013 whether it was while I\u00a0was playing sports or after, whether I\u2019m working with Native American tribes or in juvenile detention centres \u2013 I use this innate ability to understand the human condition and connect to that. My first philanthropic project was here in Hawaii, where I started OCEAN Health Fest, which aimed to educate the community on healthy food choices and promote fitness in families.\u00a0In my fridge you\u2019ll always find a nice\u00a0steak, avocados, lychees and a good milk. Everybody likes almond milk and all\u00a0the other ones, but I like the milk of the\u00a0cow. It\u2019s straightforward.I\u2019ve recently rediscovered my love for sonic jazz with no words \u2013 Yusef Lateef or Ryuichi Sakamoto. Sometimes I\u00a0just want to hear beautiful sounds.\u00a0An indulgence I would never forgo is\u00a0dessert. I go to all these fancy restaurants, but it just comes down to a\u00a0good chocolate cake. A hot chocolate cake\u00a0with some ice-cream. Sometimes I ask\u00a0them to\u00a0warm it up. They get so hurt, but it would be better if it was hot!\u00a0The last items of clothing I added\u00a0to\u00a0my wardrobe were a Bode corduroy\u00a0suit and a pair of blue pants from\u00a0Simone Rocha.\u00a0I have a big art collection: Nick Cave, Theaster Gates, Gordon Parks, Nina Chanel Abney. The artists I want to collect now are\u00a0Simone Leigh and El Anatsui, whose work resonates with me because it dives\u00a0deep into themes of identity, culture, and history \u2013 ideas I try to reflect in my own work.Men never talk about facial stuff, but the older I get the more I\u2019m like, oh, face oil! I use Elemis Superfood Facial Oil, as well as products by True Botanicals and Humanrace. For perfume, the bottle is super-important. If they don\u2019t have a good bottle I don\u2019t care how good it smells. I recently bought Galop d\u2019Herm\u00e8s Parfum: the bottle is a triangle with beautiful metal casing, and then it has a\u00a0metal top and an Herm\u00e8s-orange leather string. Elemis Superfood Facial Oil, \u00a354 for 15ml. Herm\u00e8s Galop d\u2019Herm\u00e8s Parfum, \u00a3220 for 50ml\u00a0My grooming and wellbeing guru is my hair lady Dii [Diehwredii Karnga at Ota International], who takes care of my dreads. Not everybody can do dreads \u2013 she has a touch that feels like a ritual. There\u2019s a calmness, a spirituality in the way she works. It\u2019s not just about the technique, it\u2019s\u00a0about the soul, the care she brings. She\u2019s also a musician so she\u2019s always playing her music; she has good energy.\u00a0When I need to feel inspired, the first thing I do is throw on some incense and Miles Davis\u2019s \u201cFlamenco Sketches\u201d or Water Babies. I\u2019ve created a lot of things to\u00a0that album: most recently I\u2019ve been designing a secular space in Seattle.\u00a0I don\u2019t have an alternate-life career; I think I\u2019m living it. After I retired from football I could have stopped and played golf every day, but I went to architecture school, interior design school, and now I\u2019m living that life.\u00a0The thing I couldn\u2019t do without is my family. At the core of it all, you have the family with your parents, brothers and sisters and cousins. And then you go out in the world and make a family with somebody else, and that becomes so important that in the moments you\u2019re not there, it feels like there\u2019s a part of you that\u2019s not together. Even though kids get on your goddamn nerves because they don\u2019t always listen, at the end of the day they\u2019re your kids and that\u2019s a thing you can\u2019t live without. And it\u2019s important not to raise a serial killer.\u00a0My favourite buildings are Tadao Ando\u2019s buildings on Naoshima, Japan\u2019s art island. I was mad because I just went to his Church of the Light and it was closed. I drove all the way from Kyoto to Osaka and I was like \u201cNooooo!\u201dThe works of art that changed everything for me are by Anselm Kiefer. I went to Venice and I saw his exhibition Questi scritti, quando verranno bruciati, daranno finalmente un po\u2019 di luce. It referred in part to the Holocaust, and the material, colour palette and scale changed my whole understanding of what art is supposed to do. Also Theaster Gates\u2019 series using firehoses and Richard Serra\u2019s work.\u00a0I believe in life after death because I think everything has a reciprocal relationship. Life and death, light and darkness. I would like to think that after life, there\u2019s something to think about, that this isn\u2019t just the end. You go to funerals and you see the physical, and then you wonder where that thing went \u2013 the consciousness. I want to believe that there\u2019s a place where consciousness exists after the flesh ceases to exist.\u00a0On my Instagram \u201cFor You\u201d page, I see tennis and architecture, mostly, and different hotels that I want to go and visit: Amanruya in Bodrum, Turkey and the Royal Mansour Marrakech in Morocco. I saw that Aman is doing something with Djokovic \u2013 he\u2019s my favourite tennis player.My favourite room in my house is probably my office. When you have a house you share a lot of space and make concessions for everybody, but my office was a good opportunity to express the design ethos that I love. I have all my furniture that I designed for Studio K\u00ebr, as well as the ceramics that I make, and it just has this diasporic way of thinking. We also did a good job of picking pieces for the living room: an orange leather couch made of separate pieces that come together, the beautiful Mo-Mo Table and one of the Pews couches that I made, an African cover and these two Japanese chairs. And then there\u2019s this table that\u2019s made out of one trunk of wood, which flows through the room perfectly.\u00a0A website that I like is Common Sense Media. It\u2019s kind of stupid, but when you have kids you want to watch the movie before you watch the movie \u2013 like, are there sexual things in the movie? Common Sense Media tells you everything. I look at it to make sure nothing pops up that we might have to have a family discussion about.\u00a0The best bit of advice I ever received was when I was a rookie in the NFL: I was playing for Tampa Bay Bucaneers and I got the opportunity to spend some time with Ronde Barber. It was his 13th year and I was, like, \u201cDamn, 13 years? I don\u2019t even know if I\u00a0can do this for two.\u201d That day propelled me\u00a0to stay in the NFL as long as I did \u2013 11 seasons \u2013 because I learnt so much. His best advice was: \u201cShow people who you are by the work that you do.\u201d The way he approached the job helped me figure out how not to get caught up in the glitz and glamour and to keep the human experience important.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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