R.K. King Quotes

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

Doubters will doubt to the end.

Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say, "Good morning," or "How are you?"

We the money team Fell asleep next to that cake and had a money dream

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.

With growth comes change.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

The truth is, you are your own “special someone,” and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Long days and pleasant nights

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.

But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank