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.
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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.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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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.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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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.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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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.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
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I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.
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For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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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.
