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

Little Richard

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Little Richard
Age: 87 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 5
Died: 2020
Died: May 9
Musician
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Priest
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Macon
Georgia
Richard Wayne Penniman
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Richard Penniman
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I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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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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I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
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I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
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I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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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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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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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 don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.
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God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
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No, I've never truly been a minister.
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I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
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