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" God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men. "
Little Richard
Men
God
Us
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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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" 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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" People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop. "
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" I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband. "
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" No, I've never truly been a minister. "
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" I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing. "
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" It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me. "
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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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" I think that a man should be caring. "
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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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" To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it. "
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" And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female. "
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Woman
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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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Try
Darkness
" My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy. "
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Boy
" I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names. "
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Names
Kind
" 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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" Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music. "
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Country Music
Music
Country
" It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word. "
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Friend
Word
Name
" I only wore makeup when I went onstage. "
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" I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. "
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Blueprint
Idea
" I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make? "
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" I'm very much a gentleman in what I do. "
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Very
" I'm here to sing. "
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Here
Sing
" I thank God for making me a man. "
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Man
Making
God
" I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs. "
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" I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. "
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" I was always my own person. "
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" Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. "
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" I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength. "
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