Quotes About Legacy

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

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.

A king should die on his feet.

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail!

The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.'

We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.

Our nation has come so far since 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated, but I know we can do better to achieve The Dream, and that is why I keep marching on.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

Nat King Cole was a really big influence.

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.

I knew BB King when he first started out.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.