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No, I've never truly been a minister.
Little Richard
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Little Richard
Age: 87 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 5
Died: 2020
Died: May 9
Musician
Pianist
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Macon
Georgia
Richard Wayne Penniman
Richard
Richard Penniman
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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'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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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 let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
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I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
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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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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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But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
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I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
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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 invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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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 thank God for making me a man.
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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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And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
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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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