R.K. King Quotes

The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

You can't polish a turd.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

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There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

Every hour of useful work is precious.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.