Quotes By Little Richard

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

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.

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?

I think that a man should be caring.

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.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

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.

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

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

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.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

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

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.

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

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

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.

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

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

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

I thank God for making me a man.

I've never seen the devil create music.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

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

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

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

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

No, I've never truly been a minister.