#h

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

— Little Richard

#i #sensitive #think #you

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

#express #expression #i #i think #like

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business. ↗

— Little Richard

#business #i #i tried #look #sexual

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

— Little Richard

#child #i #kind #really #shy

I'm here to sing. ↗

— Little Richard

#i #sing

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

#day #education #me #out #poverty

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

— Little Richard

#company #i #like #me #mother

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

#brothers #children #felt #i #mama

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. ↗

— Ann Richards

#date #done #ever #had #hardest

Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process. ↗

— Ann Richards

#get #going #got #home #lost