Rodney King Quotes

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• I tell myself time heals. It really does.
• We could all get along if we just hang out at iSurfing.
• Why can't we all just get along?
• I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me…
• When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in…
• I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and…
• I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there…
• I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.
• As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It…
• I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it.…
• I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing…
• Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.
• Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.
• As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.
• I saw my hometown burning that day.
• It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.
• It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.
• Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.
• Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of…
• We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

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