B.B. King Quotes

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

A cat won't curry favor even if it's in their best interests to do so. A cat can't be a hypocrite. If more preachers were like cats, this would be a more religious country.

I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.

Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

We live in a society where we may have differences, of course, but we learn to celebrate these differences.

What are you doing for others?

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

A lie cannot live.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.

Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.