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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'm very much a gentleman in what I do. "

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" But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. "

" Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul. "

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" Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names. "

" I'm here to sing. "

" 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. "

" I was always my own person. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 love God, and I'm a follower. "

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

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