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Shaun King
Shaun King
American Writer
Born: Sep 17, 1979
Justice Me People Police White You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy. Shaun King
Kindness Freedom Liberty Christ Nation White Christianity Supremacy Built America
People with momentum can get so much done. Momentum is easy to lose and almost impossible to fake. Shaun King
People Impossible Lose Easy Almost Fake Get Done Much Momentum
It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never causes harm. Shaun King
Matter Responsibility Way Never Wronged Still Causes Been Influence Use Harm
I love social media, and it is an important part of how we make change happen. But we can't retweet ourselves out of our most serious problems. Shaun King
Love Change Problems Social Media Important Our Ourselves Out Part Most Make Important Part How Happen Social Serious Media
There is a movement we call Afro-Futurism, where we imagine a black way of life free of white supremacy and bigotry. 'Black Panther,' I think, is the first blockbuster film centered in the ethos of Afro-Futurism, where the writers and directors and makeup and wardrobe team all imagined a beautiful, thriving black Africa without colonialism. Shaun King
Life Beautiful Black Free Colonialism First White Think Panther Way Directors Thriving Writers Supremacy Call Without Makeup Blockbuster Africa Movement Where Centered Wardrobe Ethos Team Film Imagine Imagined
'The Star-Spangled Banner' should've never been made into our national anthem. That President Woodrow Wilson, widely thought to be one of the most bigoted presidents ever elected, chose it as our national anthem, is painfully telling as well. Shaun King
Thought Made National President Our Presidents Telling Wilson Never Most Well Anthem Been National Anthem Woodrow Woodrow Wilson Banner Bigoted Elected Painfully Chose Ever Widely
I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it. Shaun King
Fight Racism People Care About Because Experiencing Against Who
While I am furious about injustice, I do what I do, fighting against it, out of a place of love. Shaun King
Love Injustice Fighting Furious Out About Am Place While Against
For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest. Shaun King
Life Family History Complicated Entire Entire Life Chest Very Close Family History Held Cards
When you are a coordinated partner, you are, in effect, on the campaign staff. You can talk to the whole staff and have virtually no limits on what you can discuss and strategize around. When you are an independent friend of the campaign, you are not allowed to strategize with the campaign on their political decisions. Shaun King
You Political Partner Virtually Independent Allowed Talk Around Limits Political Decisions Effect Campaign Friend Discuss Staff Decisions Whole Coordinated
Having come so close to death, I now value just how precious life truly is and want to ride what God gave me until the wheels fall off. Shaun King
Life Death God Me Ride Value Fall Gave Having Come Until How Truly Off Close Precious Precious Life Wheels Just Want Now
We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more important than God to a lot of people. It's why Colin Kaepernick's protest rocked the nation and got the whole world talking. Taking a knee is a simple act of defiance. Had Colin done it anywhere other than the football field, it might not have even made the news. Shaun King
Music God News Sports People World Simple Defiance Made Country Important Nation Field Live Other Colin More Simple Act Had Knee Football Football Field Taking Talking Protest Got Lot Than Done Where Anywhere Movies Might Act Whole Even Why
Never have I once identified myself as white. Shaun King
Myself White Once Never Identified
People I love and trust advise me to just drop off the face of the Earth for an extended period of time, and maybe that will calm or cool things down. But my work is very public work. Shaun King
Work Love Time Me Trust People Will Face Drop Calm Down Earth Period Advise Off Very Maybe Just Public Cool Extended Things
I see my role as sort of an informed outsider. Shaun King
See Outsider Sort Role Informed
I've always been a writer and have always loved writing. Shaun King
Writing Writer Always Been Loved
For about a year, I worked for 'Daily Kos.' They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. 'The New York Daily News' saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire. Shaun King
Great News Daily Me First Feeling Big Year Whatever Thinking Changes Saw Some Pretty About About A Year Write Allowed New Editor Making Hire Hired Were His Chief York New York Mean Worked Daily News
When I write a story, I try to write them from the perspective of victims. I try to write them from the perspective of families who've been done wrong, who have lost their loved ones or people who have experienced injustice. Shaun King
Injustice People Try Perspective Lost Write Wrong Been Families Done Experienced Loved Loved Ones Story Victims Them Who
I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman. Shaun King
Great Woman Mother Single Rural She Single Mother Up Just Grew Really Compassionate Kentucky Raised
I've made tons of mistakes over the past years, but if there's anything I've done well, if I see an opportunity, or if I see God moving or going in a direction or opening a door for me, I try to take it; I try not to hesitate. Shaun King
God Me Opportunity Try Made Mistakes Past Hesitate See Direction Take Over Opening Well Years Done Going Door Anything Moving Tons
When you're trying to bust through the noise on social media, you do have to be overt and loud. Shaun King
You Noise Social Media Through Loud Trying Social Bust Media
I'm yelling in my mind as I write a tweet. Shaun King
Mind Write Yelling Tweet
I used to think this notion of preaching to the choir was a problem, and we kind of use it in a bit of a pejorative sense... but I've actually grown to adopt that perspective that the choir needs good preaching - they need good information. They need good tools and insight. Shaun King
Good Needs Problem Perspective Preaching Sense Think Tools Bit Kind Insight Adopt Information Choir Use Notion Used Grown Actually Need
Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways. Shaun King
Injustice Fight People Exhausted Back Ways Pushed Sophisticated Also Very Them Organize
I reject this idea that who Bernie Sanders was in the 1960s is irrelevant. Who you are and what you do, what you fought for, and who and what you fought against, is always relevant. Shaun King
You Relevant Bernie Sanders Idea Always Irrelevant Against Who Fought Reject
It takes guts in this country to refuse to be a Democrat or a Republican. Shaun King
Country Guts Takes Democrat Refuse Republican
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