the resources he could muster. For one thing, he was a cripple; one leg was noticeably shorter than the other. When I saw him at his October 20, 2007 concert in St. Augustine, Little Richard said he went hip, hop, hip, hop when he walked: "I invented hiphop!" he cried. But high spirits are easy to come by late in life; in the kid-dominated world of boyhood Macon, he was teased without mercy, and he felt the sting. His limp connected him to a side of life that the young Richard wasn't aware of yet.
from David Kirby: The New York Times: Excerpt: 'Little Richard'
also The New York Times: Some Fun Tonight
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