Shaun King Quotes

Black power means Black dignity

My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.

There's nothing that makes me feel better than being on these mainstream shows, whether it's 'The View,' 'Colbert' or whatever, and saying, 'It's a privilege to be black.' Oh, I love that.

I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives.

The black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of white supremacy and an adoption of values and traditions endowed from the black experience.

I am for Obama, all the way. I don't support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

Up you mighty race!

The white people can go wherever they please and they will not be disturbed by us, and I want you to let them know.

I don't support white supremacy. I'm the one who made them take 'white supremacy' off the roster that was the symbol of the Democratic Party in this state.

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.

I learned about poise and dignity, and I learned about what it means to be an African-American in television and what that requires in terms of what kind of position you take for yourself and how you define your own reality in a world that is still finding its footing, to say the least.

I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.

My grandmother probably never thought she would see a day where, you know, a young black woman would be seen as a leader, which is incredible.

When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

It's a new world that's very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.