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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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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. 
Little Richard 

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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God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men. 
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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul. 
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I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs. 
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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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I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did. 
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I only wore makeup when I went onstage. 
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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 tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business. 
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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 was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention. 
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I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. 
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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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Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. 
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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. 
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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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They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again. 
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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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