Rodney King Quotes

Can we all get along?
I saw my hometown burning that day.
It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.
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.
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 causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
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?'
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 and it's not making a difference.
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. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.
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 to be able to talk about 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 and restraint.
I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.
I tell myself time heals. It really does.
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 to get to that point, but that's the work of God.
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.
Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.
Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.
People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.
People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?
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02 April, 1965
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17 June, 2012
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