Quotes from Little Richard

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

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 don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

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.

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

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

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

I thank God for making me a man.

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.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

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 gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

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

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

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.

I've never seen the devil create music.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

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

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 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.