R.K. King Quotes
I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.
Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.
He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.
Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.
A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.
I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.
The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.
Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.