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To be perfectly honest, she was amazing so it has had its handicaps. The thing is that people judge you by your parents' and people expect me to be just like daddy and mother. Therefore, I can't run across the street or anything.

— Yolanda King

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"To this day, my heart skips a beat every time I hear one of those special bulletins."

After recollecting her father's death to People magazine (1999)

"I am a 100 percent, dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying believer in the dream."

"Our mother is coming home and we are so grateful and so thankful that this is happening."

This accomplishment is a moment of triumph—but not for Martin Luther King Jr., he wouldn’t have cared one way or other, his was a very self-effacing spirit.

A Dream Deferred (1989)

"Jim Crow is dead. But his sophisticated, college-educated, urbane first cousin J. Crow, Esquire, is alive and kicking."

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