R.K. King Quotes

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.

Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Violence often brings about momentary results.

I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.

Champions take responsibility.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

It's important to try to get people to think about women's wellness.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

America, you must be born again!

In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

Your personality is what makes you sexy.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

I've loved all of my time here.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.