67 Quotes by Yolanda King

I have chosen to continue to promote 'we're one, the oneness of us,' and shine the spotlight, as my father did.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.