Aura

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I remember the first time I played against him. I walked out on the court, and I looked at him... and for the first time in my life a human being didn’t look real to me, you know what I mean? I mean, I don’t know if y’all watch the Chappelle show, he talks about a certain incident where he's seen, somebody’s seen Rick James, and like, I literally seen his aura. It looked like he was glowing, and I’m sitting there, and I’m saying to myself like, man, that’s Mike, and I’m looking at him, I can’t stop looking at him. Like, I’m looking at his shoes and I’m like, he got on the Jordans, you know what I mean?

—Allen Iverson

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I can see your halo.

—Beyoncé

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Glow with that.

—Skyler Chowdy

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