17 Yolanda King Quotes for You to Enjoy

Yolanda King

American Activist

Born: Nov 17, 1955

Died: May 15, 2007

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By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist. Yolanda King

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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'. Yolanda King

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The civil rights movement was not a mirage… It was live and in living color. Yolanda King

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I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen. Yolanda King

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One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background. Yolanda King

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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. Yolanda King

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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. Yolanda King

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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. Yolanda King

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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. Yolanda King

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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. Yolanda King

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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. Yolanda King

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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. Yolanda King

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