Shaun King Quotes

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Shaun King

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 17, 1979

People I love and trust advise me to just drop off the face of the Earth for an extended period of time, and maybe that will calm or cool things down. But my work is very public work.

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A tweet is fast. But everything about policy change is very slow. And a lot of us are impatient.

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I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.

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I tend to write two stories every day, five days a week. It's a real grind. But it also allows me to really try to have my finger on the pulse of injustice in America.

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I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

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When I write a story, I try to write them from the perspective of victims. I try to write them from the perspective of families who've been done wrong, who have lost their loved ones or people who have experienced injustice.

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I think, when people think of NFL athletes, they forget that they are citizens of this country, that they are bothered by the problems that we all face.

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I'm most comfortable at the intersection of technology and helping people; that's really what gets me going and gets me excited and what I get most passionate about.

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I've always loved technology - not gadgets so much... but I've enjoyed using technology to connect people to people and connect people to opportunities to do good.

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I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.

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I've made tons of mistakes over the past years, but if there's anything I've done well, if I see an opportunity, or if I see God moving or going in a direction or opening a door for me, I try to take it; I try not to hesitate.

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Young people, throughout history, have always been the lifeblood of every movement for civil and human rights.

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I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

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When people meet me or hear me in person, they quickly learn that I am much more than a tweet and a profile picture.

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While I am furious about injustice, I do what I do, fighting against it, out of a place of love.

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I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man.

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When you're trying to bust through the noise on social media, you do have to be overt and loud.

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I'm yelling in my mind as I write a tweet.

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There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there's a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.

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I think what irritates both conservatives and liberals alike is when news outlets pretend that they don't have an agenda but then clearly do, be it in the editorial decisions they make and the guests they have and the material that they cover.

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