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" I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs. "

" It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word. "

" I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more. "

" 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. "

" But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money. "

" God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men. "

" 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. "

" I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms. "

" I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength. "

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

" God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present. "

" 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. "

" I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing. "

" I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. "

" I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did. "

" 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. "

" And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own. "

" I think that a man should be caring. "

" 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. "

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" But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. "

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