- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the arts, you can impact upon people's attitudes, values, and understandings.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist and as a Black woman coming out of a background that emphasizes service, there are certain responsibilities that I must assume. I see these responsibilities not as a burden, but as an extension of what I am.
- Decided
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broadway musicals like 'Ain't Misbehavin',' 'Eubie' and 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' depict blacks having a light, wonderful time and that was just not so for blacks in the '20s and '30s.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
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'.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In life, I had to be prim and proper and poised - The King Daughter. But acting, I could be the zany, silly, sometimes foolish person that I am. I could let the raw edges show.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And you don't have to be a preacher to carry on. That's why I've gone into the theater, with my mother's blessings, and someday I may write, produce and act in my own story of daddy's life. There are so many sides to his story. I hope that someday I could get that opportunity.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given my belief that there is a divine purpose for my father's life on this planet, given the way I was raised, it's real hard to get angry. I get that from my daddy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father. My siblings had the same kind of pressure.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have chosen to continue to promote 'we're one, the oneness of us,' and shine the spotlight, as my father did.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must celebrate difference until difference doesn't make a difference in the way we treat each other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest. It was an era when students were making demands and many black students were closer to the teachings of Malcolm X, or what they thought were his teachings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was watching the news that day when the bulletin came on that my father had been shot. I prayed. I asked God, 'Please don't let my daddy die.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I struggled with a lot of the legacy for a long time, probably actually into my 30s before I really made peace with it.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies.
- Dawned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak for myself.
- Sing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that I'm very much in touch with my father's spirit and presence. I feel it, sense it and take much energy and inspiration from that.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was not really pleased when I told him of my choice to train as an actress, when he was with us in this dimension.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tease sometimes and say that the King holiday is a 20th-century miracle. Reagan even signed it, and he was completely opposed to the idea.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
What just resonates with me so strongly is my whole spirituality and the fact that we are, my belief that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that no matter what is said about Martin the King Jr., what he contributed, what he gave, what he meant, what he means all over this planet cannot be tarnished.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you see the commitment my parents exhibited… it was not for fame or fortune.
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best sermons are those that are lived.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have such strong memories of my Daddy.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020