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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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" A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true. "

" To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it. "

" I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I thank God for making me a man. "

" I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. "

" 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. "

" 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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" If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man. "

" I think that a man should be caring. "

" I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man. "

" I've never seen the devil create music. "

" 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? "

" I'm here to sing. "

" Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. "

" I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business. "

" I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano. "

" I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. "

" I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other. "

" 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. "

" And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female. "

" 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. "

" I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist. "

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