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" I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man. "
Little Richard
Man
Wanted
Be A Man
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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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" I'm here to sing. "
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" Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. "
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" But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing. "
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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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" 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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" If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man. "
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" 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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" And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own. "
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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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" It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word. "
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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
" 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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" 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 was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention. "
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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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" I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I 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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" I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist. "
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" I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life. "
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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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" Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. "
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