A.S. King Quotes

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.

God made Blues right after he made woman.

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you.

What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.

There will be water if God wills it.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

With God, all things are possible.