Rodney King Quotes

There's two sides to the sword. It's like, for as many people that love you, there's all the people out there who hate you.

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Everything contains its antithesis.

I hate this hole, but I am glad to have come. It does me good to see those who hate the Tribune fear it yet more.

Life itself is controversy.

Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

I never wanted to be on a pedestal.

When I was in my heyday, of course I had those who hated me. They were supposed to hate the opposition. But it's good, though. It feels good.

Give me a celebrity, I'll give you your haters. Some people shine, and some people don't like when they shine. Ask Barack Obama - he'll tell you.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

We see every day that our very laws have both sides of the fence.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

Abraham responds "Here I am" when God asks him to sacrifice his son, and he answers "Here I am" when his son asks him about what is happening. It's a paradoxical moment. He can't be fully present for his God or his son.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

Tension of opposites.