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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. ↗

— Little Richard

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I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. ↗

— Little Richard

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I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem. ↗

— Tabare Vazquez

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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

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

— Little Richard

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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

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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' ↗

— Ann Richards

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Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up. ↗

— Ann Richards

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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality. ↗

— Ann Richards

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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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