A biography for Little Richardhasn’t been written yet.
“It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.”
“I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.”
“I've never seen the devil create music.”
“I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.”
“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.”
“I was always my own person.”
“I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.”
“Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.”
“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.”
“I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.”
“I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.”
“I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.”
“I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.”
“God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.”
“I thank God for making me a man.”
“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 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.”
“No, I've never truly been a minister.”