B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
B. B. King
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For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.
W. E. B. Du Bois
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
Malorie Blackman
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. Skinner
Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
Ziggy Marley
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
Sam Raimi
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
Jackson Browne
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
Oriana Fallaci
You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
Ted Danson
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
Ed McMahon
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
Saint Ambrose
If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
B. Kevin Turner
There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.
James Comey
I played with Prince in 2010... the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes.
Jon Batiste
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Rumi
When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.
Baltasar Kormakur
I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.
Janet Fitch
Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
B. B. King
