Quotes About Rodney King

#1. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Rush Limbaugh

#2. When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.

Kathryn Bigelow

#3. For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted.

John Hope Bryant

#4. No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

Daryl Gates

#5. I'm living three dreams:
Biggie Smalls', Dr. King, Rodney King's.
Cause we can't get along, no resolution?
'Til we drown all these haters ...
Rest in peace to Whitney Houston

Kanye West

#6. If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

Don King

#7. 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?'

Rodney King

#8. Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.

Jeffrey Toobin

#9. What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

Eazy-E

#10. You know, before when (the police went) to work, they used to be like, 'I'm gonna kick somebody's ass today and so I hope I can catch somebody in a bad situation or breaking the law, because I'm gonna beat someone's ass in a big way, I think that attitude has changed.

Rodney King

#11. 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.

Rodney King

#12. 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.

Rodney King

#13. I tell myself time heals. It really does.

Rodney King

#14. It's happening right now ... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

Rodney King

#15. It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Rodney King

#16. 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.

Rodney King

#17. The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

Rodney King

#18. Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Rodney King

#19. We could all get along if we just hang out at iSurfing.

Rodney King

#20. Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

Rodney King

#21. People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

Rodney King

#22. She was so fat that her bikini is made out of two bed sheets (king-size).

Rodney Dangerfield

#23. 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.

Rodney King

#24. 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.

Rodney King

#25. 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.

Rodney King

#26. Why can't we all just get along?

Rodney King

#27. I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

Rodney King

#28. Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

Rodney King

#29. Can we all get along?

Rodney King

#30. 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.

Rodney King

#31. What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Rodney King

#32. I saw my hometown burning that day.

Rodney King

#33. 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.

Rodney King

#34. 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 my heart.

Rodney King

#35. 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.

Rodney King

#36. As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

Rodney King