R.K. King Quotes

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.

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.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

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.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

I'm always using a towel around my head. Airports don't worry about me.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues.

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

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.

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

Invitation to Dance- It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom. But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark. May I have the pleasure?

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.