American - Celebrity | April 2, 1965 - June 17, 2012
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
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I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.
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Can we all get along?
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I saw my hometown burning that day.
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The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I tell myself time heals. It really does.
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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?'
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Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.
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Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.
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