A Black Man Singing About A Blond

No One Had Ever Told Me That Whites Were Supposed To Sing One Kind Of Music And Blacks Another - I Sang What I Liked In The Only Voice I Had.

I Grew Up Not Liking My Father Very Much. I Never Saw Him Cry. But He Must Have. Everybody Cries.

Flying Was As Necessary To My Business As Fiddles And Footlights.

What Qualifies Me To Tell People How To Act Or What To Think? I'm Charley Pride, Country Singer. Period.

I Realize I Was More Of A Curiosity To The Older Nashville Artists Than The New Ones.