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" I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more. "
Little Richard
Want
World
Present
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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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" It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word. "
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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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" To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it. "
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" 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 also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other. "
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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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" Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. "
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" But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. "
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" 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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Never
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" I've never seen the devil create music. "
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Never
Music
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" I was always my own person. "
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Own
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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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Blues
Rock
You
" But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. "
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Singers
" 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
" If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man. "
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My Life
Want
" 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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Light
Try
Darkness
" Some situations you cause yourself. "
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Yourself
Situations
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" I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing. "
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Devil
Give
Nothing
" I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano. "
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Old
Like
Banging
" But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money. "
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Today
Sell
Money
" 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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Women
Mother
Woman
" I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist. "
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Little
Package
Whole
" 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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Rock
Me
People
" I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did. "
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People
Did
Kinds
" I only wore makeup when I went onstage. "
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Onstage
Wore
Only
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Doing
Attention
" No, I've never truly been a minister. "
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Minister
Truly
Never
" 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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