One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one.


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B. B. KING
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING
It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING
My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING
I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING
I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING
I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING
Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING
I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING
I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING
I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING
I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING
A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING
I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING
When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING
I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING
Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING
I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING
If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING
If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING
I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa...
SUSAN ORLEAN
Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th...
SUSAN POWTER
At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI
Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m...
SUSAN VREELAND
Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th...
SUSAN ORLEAN
A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder...
SUSAN ORLEAN
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug...
SUSAN HAYWARD
When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c...
SUSAN MINOT
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ...
SUSAN ORLEAN
I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
SUSAN VASS
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
SUSAN SONTAG
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we...
SUSAN ERTZ
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS
My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu...
SUSAN EGAN
One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ
I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN
The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE
I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ...
SUSAN ESTRICH
My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ...
SUSAN ISAACS