#cal

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies. ↗

— Ben E. King

#buddies #come #coordinator #dad #guess

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist. ↗

— Ben E. King

#associated #aware #ben #called #course

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#empathy #essays #fiction #stranger #theoretical

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#believe #cannot #convenience #deny #group

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#called #company #first #fun #girl

If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us. ↗

— Kerry King

#anyway #both #business #cannot #decision

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#critically #education #function #goal #intelligence

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#avoiding #external #hate #him #internal

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#death #free #i #more #must

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#conservative #radical #right #too #wrong