Top Quotes by Little Richard

Little Richard

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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Collection: Women

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

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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Collection: Education

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
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I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.
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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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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
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And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
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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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I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
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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 never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
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I thank God for making me a man.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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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 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 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 always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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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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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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God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
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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 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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To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.
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I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
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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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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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