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" And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female. "
Little Richard
Joy
Woman
Because
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" I've never seen the devil create music. "
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" I love God, and I'm a follower. "
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" I thank God for making me a man. "
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" I think that a man should be caring. "
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" Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that. "
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" When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues. "
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" I only wore makeup when I went onstage. "
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" I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano. "
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" A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true. "
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" I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms. "
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" To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it. "
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" I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize. "
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" No, I've never truly been a minister. "
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" I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking. "
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Rock
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" I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. "
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Idea
" I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it. "
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Words
Never
Money
" But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. "
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" Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. "
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King
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" I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names. "
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Names
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" And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut. "
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" Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children. "
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" It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word. "
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Word
Name
" I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. "
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Long
Hair
Clothes
" I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did. "
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Did
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" Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked. "
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Gay
People
Time
" I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. "
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" I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more. "
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Want
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" I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man. "
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