Rodney King Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.”

“It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.”

“Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.”

“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.”