“Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking about women in a way that was very unusual because he didn't objectify them.” WayGuyGirlBlackHalfTalkingKingsNakedUnusual80sBlack Guys Author:Robyn
“Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.” ThinkingLittlesMadeWarTalkingPovertyEconomyProgressKingsRacismComplexesEnormousLuther Author:Andrew Young
“Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingYearsGuyNextPresidentTalkingMinutesOughtKingsDollarsPhonesCellsFortyDeep DownCell PhoneLarryWaiterOne MinuteDeceptive Author:Don Rickles
“Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.” CountryDreamTalkingRightsMovementKingsPeriodsMessagesRootsNotionCivil RightsGrassAddressesDivisionIntegrationLutherCivil Rights MovementExaggerationDetroit Author:David Maraniss
“When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.” PeopleThinkingReadingTalkingStudyRiskStreetsKeysKingsHappeningsBusGuestsNonviolenceSpeakersOverwhelmedTaking Risks Author:Joan Baez
“To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."” FirstsMeanSaidAmericaBlackTalkingSawsMinesKingsMalesMetaphorObviousVersionsPeterBlack MalesKing Kong Author:Quentin Tarantino
“As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.” IfsWantTryingSaidJobsStuffDealsTalkingKingsCostToughInvestmentHungerLunchLutherIntegratingDimes Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future I'm talking about. When I'll be long gone, it'll be them and their kids. I know that sometimes the darkest times are followed by the lightest. Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen. At the very worst, we're having very open discussions, discussions about things we didn't even know f-king existed. I talk to my friends about it and they are absolutely shocked. They didn't even know.” KnowsLooksLongTwoSometimesFactsHappensKidsTalkingBoysGoneFeminismWorstKingsRacismMy FriendsGood ThingsDiscussionBad ThingsShockedDarkest Times Author:Michael Buble
“I'm reminded of an interview Larry King had on his talk show with one of Michael Jackson's sisters. He's talking about how many millions she made on her latest record, and all of a sudden, she looks at him tearfully and says, "Larry, you know, I'm not interested in money or sales or songs. I'm a spiritual person." And I thought, "Oh my god..."” KnowsLooksPersonsMadeShowsSpiritualSongTalkingMillionsRecordsKingsInterviewsNot InterestedLarryTalk Shows Author:Werner Herzog
“Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called prophets, but they were basically intelectuals: they were people who were doing critical, geopolitical analysis, talking about the decisions of the king were going to lead to destruction; condemning inmorality, calling for justice for widows and orphans. What we would call dissident intelectuals. Were they nicely treated? No, they were driven into the desert, they were imprisoned, they were denounced. They were intelectuals who conformed.” PeopleMeanJusticeDecisionTalkingKingsCallingDestructionCriticalDrivenTreatedDesertAnalysisProphetTestamentOld TestamentWidowsOrphanCondemningDissidentsGeopoliticalWidows And Orphans Author:Noam Chomsky
“Either Malcolm X or Martin [Luther King] could have played the role of a unifier, but it was - Malcolm as long as he remained within the Nation of Islam, talking to the converted, he did not represent a fundamental threat to the American government.” LongGovernmentNationsTalkingRolesKingsFundamentalsThreatIslamLutherAmerican GovernmentNation Of Islam Author:Manning Marable
“Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence of black power, which is a discussion King mentioned in his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? We're talking about the meaning of black power and the possibility that it alienated our supporters, both white and black.” YearsBookLastsRememberBlackCommunityWhiteTalkingPossibilityKingsChaosDiscussionSupporterLutherAssassinationEmergenceBlack PowerMixtapes Author:Danny Glover
“Being a progressive himself, Franklin Roosevelt was talking about the fact that we should provide jobs for everyone who wants one. People do have a right to live in decent housing. They do have a right to education. FDR was preaching this gospel in the '30s, and Dr. Martin Luther King did the same thing in the 1960s with the Poor People's March on Washington. Folks in this country have these rights and it's the job of this country to answer this call.” PeopleWantShouldCountryFactsJobsAnswersPoorTalkingRightsKingsFolksDecentMarchProgressivePreachingDrsPoor PeopleHousingLuther1960sFranklinDr Martin Luther KingMarch On Washington Author:Nina Turner
“My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a closeted person with minimum contact with reality who has trouble tying his f**king shoes! And he's supposed to be political? A bus driver has a better perspective on things. Artists are completely indulgent.” PersonsArtProblemRealityPoliticalArtistTalkingTroublePerspectiveKingsTerribleArt IsShoesContactSupposed To BeDriversBusMinimumBus DriverPerspective On ThingsPolitical Art Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.” ThinkingShouldTalkingKingsRedBillsClintonLegsTurkeysRobesRed Lipstick Author:Tim McGraw
“Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.” TwoThreeNumbersTalkingKingsCompetitionCommunicateCashNumber Three Author:Jack Welch
“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.” IfsLittlesImportantOrderBeliefTalkingKingsTreatsMadnessLaysCalmHarmPlatoEmperorMadmenCalm DownMadhousesPlato And Aristotle Author:Blaise Pascal
“We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.” UseBornTalkingOpinionMastersKingsHeroMiserySoldierLoyalMonkeysNever ChangeSockMinions Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine