"For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'"

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Rodney King

#Kings Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Who I Am Quotes

“If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.”

Source : "Song: Settle for nothing (Rage Against The Machine)". November 3, 1992.
“I'm progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.”
“Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.”
“Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.”
“The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.”
“A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.”
“It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.44, Penguin
“The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.”

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