Shaun King Quotes

Air, an undervalued necessity, that earns your gratitude when you inhale it for the last time

I will never turn my back on the ocean: Passion I will paddle around the impact zone: No short cuts I will take the drop with commitment: Courage, focus and determination I will never fight a rip tide: The danger of pride and egotism I will always paddle back out: Perseverance in the face of challenges I will watch out for other surfers after a big set: Responsibility I will know that there will always be another wave: Optimism I will ride and not paddle into shore: Self-esteem I will pass on my stoke to a non-surfer: Sharing knowledge and giving back I will catch a wave every day, even in my mind: Imagination I will realize that all surfers are joined by one ocean: Empathy I will honor the sport of kings: Honor and integrity

It was a portable phonograph, the kind with the plastic cover, invented for teenage girls of thirteen or fourteen to take to beach and lawn parties. The kind of phonograph constructed with 45 singles in mind—the ones made by the Osmonds, Leif Garrett, John Travolta, Shaun Cassidy. She looked at it closely, and felt her eyes filling with tears. “Well,” she said, “let’s see if it does.” It did work. And for almost four hours they sat at the opposite ends of the couch, the portable phonograph on the coffee table before them, their faces lit with silent and sorrowful fascination, listening as the music of a dead world filled the summer night.

King claims to be half-black, born to a black father and white mother. However, a closer examination of King’s family tree by blogger Vicki Pate revealed a shocking truth in King’s birth certificate: it identified Jeffrey Wayne King, a white man, as Shaun King’s father. It

Mumbai Indians’ game against Mohali Kings XI was probably the most thrilling match. Batting first, Kings XI made 189 helped by what was by now a routine Shaun Marsh half century. Tendulkar

When you return I am going to give you one literary f**kfest. That means f**king, and talking, and talking, and f**king, and a bottle of Anjou in between.

The human capacity for cruelty and violence is a bottomless well. This dip we now find ourselves in absolutely can worsen if we don’t come together to organize our way out of it.

Looking over thousands of years of human history, from the end of the prehistoric age up until the 1450s, instead of the quality of humanity being in a steady upward, progressive trajectory, von Ranke found that human beings perpetually alternated back and forth between improvement and regression, peace and war, provision and famine, unity and dissension, freedom and captivity, good and evil.

Trump, full-fledged bigot that he is, rose to power on the back of white male insecurities.

The American government was not created for equality or harmony or fairness or any other warm and fuzzy purpose. It was created for white power. Even more specifically, it was created to protect and advance privileged white men.

We’d later find from the Washington Post database on police brutality that between 2015 and 2019, police have shot and killed an average of three people per day​—​nearly one thousand people per year​—​but at that moment there wasn’t widespread awareness of the issue.

And merely ousting him​—​or removing any single person from elected office, for that matter​—​will not get us out. Trump did not build the systems and structures of mass incarceration. He did not plunge this world into a climate crisis. He did not cause the epidemic of gun violence or school shootings. They existed before him and will exist after him. He and his political allies must be confronted and defeated, but this nation has systemic problems that go far beyond him.

Our biggest problems in the world may indeed be the result of flawed systems and horribly corrupt individuals, but it’s often the ambivalence of the masses that keeps them alive. Whether you intend it to or not, your silence functions as complicity. In many ways, the silence of the masses gives the bad actors and evildoers among us permission to carry on. I know you don’t want that, but when you are stuck in a state of delay, that’s where you are. So let’s change that.