R.K. King Quotes

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

I work until beer o'clock.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

I went to public - I graduated from publics - Westchester High. I'm a product of LA Unified.

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

My name is Louie, but they call me Tony!

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all.

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.

The worst lies of all are the ones we tell ourselves. They are the most damaging.