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Little Richard

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

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

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

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

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

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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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"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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