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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? "
Little Richard
God
Think
People
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" Some situations you cause yourself. "
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" I was always my own person. "
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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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" I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano. "
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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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" 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 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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" I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man. "
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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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" I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more. "
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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 don't give the devil credit for creating nothing. "
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Give
Nothing
" No, I've never truly been a minister. "
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" I love God, and I'm a follower. "
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God
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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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" I think that a man should be caring. "
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I Think
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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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Company
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" I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names. "
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Kind
" God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men. "
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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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" 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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" But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money. "
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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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" I thank God for making me a man. "
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" But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. "
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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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" 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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