Creativity Quote by Little Richard

Little Richard’s blunt triple-beat - “always knew,” “always felt,” “always wanted” - reads like a drum fill that refuses to let you look away. It’s not a philosophical argument about identity; it’s an insistence. The repetition works the way his music did: ecstatic, pushy, designed to overpower the polite questions people think they’re entitled to ask. “Always” is doing the heavy lifting here, sealing off the favorite loophole of a hostile culture: that this is a phase, a stunt, a costume. He stakes a claim on continuity.

The line also carries the pressure of its era. Richard came up in a mid-century America that demanded rigid gender performance, especially from Black men whose bodies were already hyper-policed. Rock ‘n’ roll made him famous for flamboyance, but fame didn’t equal safety. The subtext is survival: if the world is going to narrate you as confused, deviant, or manufactured by showbiz, you respond with a simple timeline that predates all of it.

There’s tension in the phrasing, too. “Knew” suggests certainty; “felt” suggests interior truth; “wanted” admits desire, the part critics love to weaponize as choice. Putting them together creates a fuller self-portrait: mind, heart, and longing aligned. Coming from an artist who cycled between sexual transgression, religious guilt, and reinvention, the statement lands less as a tidy label than as testimony. It’s Little Richard translating a life of performance into something unperformable: a core he claims existed before the spotlight and will outlast it.