30 Little Richard Quotes for You to Enjoy

Little Richard

American Musician

Born: Dec 5, 1932

God Man Me People Rock Think

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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. Little Richard

God Woman Women Strong Mother Made Men Husband Be Strong Think Way Strong Woman Feet Because Felt Without Always Very Trampled

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. Little Richard

Queen King Elvis Rock Rock And Roll Am Roll May

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. Little Richard

Love Me Grass Believe Other Everybody Side Give Like Know Look Greener May Just Them Cut Hard

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other. Little Richard

Love Think Other Enough Wrong Toward Also Us Show Each

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. Little Richard

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs. Little Richard

Costs Felt Did

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. Little Richard

Singer Occupation Rock Rock-N-Roll Roll Livelihood

I've never seen the devil create music. Little Richard

Music Seen Devil Never Create

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. Little Richard

People Song Thought Black Would Shake Like Make Houses Tracks Boy Sounds Hear Train Gonna Lived Railroad Right Night

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. Little Richard

Singing Most Singers Were Loud

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano. Little Richard

Old Piano Like Also Banging

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man. Little Richard

Man Be A Man Knew Felt Always Wanted

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength. Little Richard

Strength Man Woman Think Like She Act Show

I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did. Little Richard

People Kinds Know Did Right Things

I love God, and I'm a follower. Little Richard

Love God Follower

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

Me Kind Never Nobody Names Call Audience Heard Any

I only wore makeup when I went onstage. Little Richard

Only Onstage Makeup Wore

I think that a man should be caring. Little Richard

Man Think Caring Should

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. Little Richard

Music Me People Think Saw Way Out Something Could Wished Like Lot Which Themselves Means Express Expression

I was always my own person. Little Richard

Own My Own Always Person

I'm here to sing. Little Richard

Sing Here

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. Little Richard

Success Education Day Me Poverty Way Out Brighter

No, I've never truly been a minister. Little Richard

Minister Never Been Truly

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. Little Richard

Guitar Bass Call Rock Banging Now

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. Little Richard

Me Speak Brothers Brothers And Sisters Support Also Felt Rock Rock-N-Roll Mama Offered Sisters Roll Children Twelve Platform

Some situations you cause yourself. Little Richard

You Yourself Cause Some Situations

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