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I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
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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Macon
Georgia
Richard Wayne Penniman
Richard
Richard Penniman
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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 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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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 thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.
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I've never seen the devil create music.
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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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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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We're gonna have some fun tonight.
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It's not the size of the ship it's the size of the waves.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
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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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I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
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But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
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I thank God for making me a man.
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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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