Quotes by Yolanda King - Page 1

I have such strong memories of my Daddy.
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Daddy
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The best sermons are those that are lived.
Yolanda King / Activist
Sermons
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To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.
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Apathy
Get Up
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By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.
Yolanda King / Activist
By The Time
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The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.
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Lessons
Sermons
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I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.
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Concerns
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The civil rights movement was not a mirage… It was live and in living color.
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Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Mirage
Rights Movement
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A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.
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Accomplishment
Foster
Prisons
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Through the arts, you can impact upon people's attitudes, values, and understandings.
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Attitudes
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One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.
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Liberal Arts
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We must celebrate difference until difference doesn't make a difference in the way we treat each other.
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Celebrate
Make A Difference
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I have chosen to continue to promote 'we're one, the oneness of us,' and shine the spotlight, as my father did.
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Chosen
Oneness
Spotlight
Promote
Shine
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As soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father. My siblings had the same kind of pressure.
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Compare
Heard
Pressure
Sibling
Me Father People
Father Me People
Soon
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My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.
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Civil Rights
Minister
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I struggled with a lot of the legacy for a long time, probably actually into my 30s before I really made peace with it.
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Legacy
Time Peace Long
Struggled
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My father was not really pleased when I told him of my choice to train as an actress, when he was with us in this dimension.
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Dimension
Pleased
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Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak for myself.
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Black America
Myself Always Me
Dawned
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I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.
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All People
Myself Responsibility People
Tremendous
Expectation
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My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies.
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Carbon
Copies
Entity
Offspring
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What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.
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Respect
Differences
Diversity
Tolerance
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I tease sometimes and say that the King holiday is a 20th-century miracle. Reagan even signed it, and he was completely opposed to the idea.
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Holiday
Tease
Signed
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I feel that I'm very much in touch with my father's spirit and presence. I feel it, sense it and take much energy and inspiration from that.
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Presence
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Within the theater lies the power to stimulate and alter the hearts and minds of both the privileged and those who have too long been denied.
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Denied
Privileged
Alter
Stimulate
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I was watching the news that day when the bulletin came on that my father had been shot. I prayed. I asked God, 'Please don't let my daddy die.'
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Daddy
Prayed
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Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know nothin'.
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Black
Luther
Understanding
Young
General
Martin
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King
Nothin
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This is one of my favorite things to do, working with a symphonic accompaniment, because I don't sing - and this is as close as I will come to singing.
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Favorite Things
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What just resonates with me so strongly is my whole spirituality and the fact that we are, my belief that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Human Experience
Spiritual Beings
Resonates
Strongly
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Given my belief that there is a divine purpose for my father's life on this planet, given the way I was raised, it's real hard to get angry. I get that from my daddy.
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Daddy
Divine
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I know that no matter what is said about Martin the King Jr., what he contributed, what he gave, what he meant, what he means all over this planet cannot be tarnished.
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Martin
Tarnished
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In life, I had to be prim and proper and poised - The King Daughter. But acting, I could be the zany, silly, sometimes foolish person that I am. I could let the raw edges show.
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Edges
Foolish
Silly
Poised
Raw
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We've not reached the promised land. We're still wandering around, bumping into each other in the wilderness of ignorance and hate. That is why the King holiday is so important.
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Hate
Holiday
Ignorance
Land
Promised Land
Wilderness
Wandering
Promised
Reached
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Broadway musicals like 'Ain't Misbehavin',' 'Eubie' and 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' depict blacks having a light, wonderful time and that was just not so for blacks in the '20s and '30s.
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Broadway
Sugar
Blacks
Broadway Musicals
Depict
Musicals
Wonderful Time
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My friends… feel there are not that many people they can really look up to. They feel people are so hypocritical and fake… But I do have some people I respect, a great number of people, and I'm sure my friends have.
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Fake
Hypocritical
Respect Great Look
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As an artist and as a Black woman coming out of a background that emphasizes service, there are certain responsibilities that I must assume. I see these responsibilities not as a burden, but as an extension of what I am.
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Burden
Assume
Extension
Responsibilities
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Do you know what I think of when I remember him? I think: He was such a kid. He taught me how to swim when I was 4 and how to ride a bike. So when I think of Martin Luther King, I think of laughter. I think of the play and the fun.
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Bike
Do You Know
Laughter
Luther
Swim
Martin
Martin Luther King
Ride
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To really involve yourself in transforming yourself. That's the work that I'm really focused on through my company, Higher Ground Productions, is really helping people to really find a place of personal empowerment as well as inner peace.
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Empowerment
Focused
Helping
Helping People
Higher
Inner Peace
Productions
Transforming
Inner
Involve
Personal
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I know in my heart the dream will be realized. I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available to you at every moment. You can choose understanding over anger, believing over nonbelieving, action over inaction. It gives meaning to every choice we make.
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Dream
Believe
Powerful
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And you don't have to be a preacher to carry on. That's why I've gone into the theater, with my mother's blessings, and someday I may write, produce and act in my own story of daddy's life. There are so many sides to his story. I hope that someday I could get that opportunity.
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Daddy
Preacher
Sides
Someday
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Really just about the only remembrance I have from when I was very young is the way Daddy used to place me on the refrigerator and then say, 'Jump!' and I'd jump into his arms. It was so much fun for me that even when I got too large for it to happen, I still wanted to do it anyway!
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Arms
Daddy
Remembrance
Me Fun Way
Jump
Refrigerator
So Much Fun
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At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest. It was an era when students were making demands and many black students were closer to the teachings of Malcolm X, or what they thought were his teachings.
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Massachusetts
Movement
Closer
Malcolm
Peak
Smith
Teachings
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You see, for the most part it was a normal upbringing. Sure, there was the Nobel Peace award; sure, there were people coming to our house who I knew were famous. But we grew up in a very modest part of the community. Our last home was in what had been one of the worst ghettos in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Modest
Nobel
Upbringing
Award
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Til I was about eight or nine, I had no awareness he was anybody special. Since all our friends were in the movement, I thought what Daddy did was natural. Everybody went to jail, right? Then, one day some kids at school called my daddy a jailbird, and it upset me. That was the beginning of my awareness.
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Daddy
Jail
Upset
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Obviously, since 9/11, here in this country there has been a resurgence of fear and people feeling distrustful of other people that are different. And what we chose to do was to focus on people coming together, working across those barriers of race, of culture, of religion, and really finding a heart connection.
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Barriers
Resurgence
Across
Chose
Connection
Finding
Obviously
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When you say 'the man of the house,' the black woman has been the woman and the man of the house, because black men have so often had to spend all of their time and energy working and trying, at least, to give their families the basic needs. So black women, I find, are not really concerned about women's liberation.
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Basic Needs
Liberation
Time Men Women
Time Women Men
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