B.B. King Quotes

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

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun.

When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.

You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.

Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better

A woman knows a skirt-chaser.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

Only in America could a Don King happen.

As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?