Shaun King Quotes

You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.

I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

I grew up figure skating, and in figure skating there is only a handful of black people at the time figure skating with me.

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad.

My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

Colored people come in all colors.

There is no one American beauty or just one beautiful color in the pantheon, especially in regards to black people - there is no better color.

I know I'm a black actor, but really, I'm an actor who happens to be black.

I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.' I had to get over that anxiety of 'I haven't done this before.'

I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that this person is black. And some days, this character wakes up and feels black, and some days, she doesn't. That is, for me, a fully black experience.

I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

I'm not going to be one of those people who says, 'I'm a showrunner; I'm not a black showrunner.' I'm black when I go to sleep. I'm black when I wake up, period. It doesn't affect my perspective on everything, but at the same time, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

When I signed for Spurs, I was the only black player in the team.

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

I should be known for my work and not how I promote myself and what I do.