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Top 20 Rodney King Quotes (2025 Update)

Rodney King Quote: “Why can’t we all just get along?”

1. “Why can’t we all just get along?”

— Rodney King

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Rodney King Quote: “Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.”

2. “Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “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.”

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.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “I sometimes feel like I’m caught in a vise. Some people feel like I’m some kind of hero. Others hate me.”

5. “I sometimes feel like I’m caught in a vise. Some people feel like I’m some kind of hero. Others hate me.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.”

6. “I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “I saw my hometown burning that day.”

7. “I saw my hometown burning that day.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.”

8. “As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “As a black man, you run from the cops. It’s different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.”

9. “As a black man, you run from the cops. It’s different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “I had to learn to forgive. I couldn’t sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn’t want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.”

10. “I had to learn to forgive. I couldn’t sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn’t want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “I tell myself time heals. It really does.”

11. “I tell myself time heals. It really does.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “I’m a religious person. I remember my mom told me: ‘Vengeance belongs to God. It’s up to him to wreak vengeance.’ It’s hard for me to get to that point, but that’s the work of God.”

12. “I’m a religious person. I remember my mom told me: ‘Vengeance belongs to God. It’s up to him to wreak vengeance.’ It’s hard for me to get to that point, but that’s the work of God.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “We could all get along if we just hang out at iSurfing.”

13. “We could all get along if we just hang out at iSurfing.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Rodney King Quote: “I don’t see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it’s not making a difference.”

15. “I don’t see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it’s not making a difference.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “What I’ve learned to do is arrest my addiction – arrest it myself, so I don’t get arrested.”

16. “What I’ve learned to do is arrest my addiction – arrest it myself, so I don’t get arrested.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “Nice guys just don’t finish first in the music industry.”

17. “Nice guys just don’t finish first in the music industry.”

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “It’s not painful to relive it. I’m comfortable with my position in American history.”

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

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “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?’”

19. “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?’”

— Rodney King

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

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

— Rodney King

Rodney King Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Rodney King

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