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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

From B. B. King

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

From B. B. King

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

From B. B. King

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

From B. B. King

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

From B. B. King

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

From B. B. King

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

From B. B. King

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

From B. B. King

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

From B. B. King

B. B. King

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