B.B. King Quotes

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.

the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.

I think that friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

The wisest fool in Christendom.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.

After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points - I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves.

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.