R. Kelly Quotes

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

We had people who obviously didn’t have, necessarily, my best interest in mind… A lot of money was made, and a lot of advantage was taken.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.

For heaven's sake, stop nickle-and-diming me to death.

There were also very great robberies and murder of our principal men. This was done in pretense indeed for the public welfare, but in reality for the hopes of gain to themselves

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

The loggers are more powerful than we are …. There is bribery everywhere.

Anti-monopoly is a movement inspired by a set of fools and black-mailers. To be sure, there are some men in it whose motives are good, if their sense is not. When I want to buy up any politician, I always find the Anti-Monopolists the most purchasable. They don't come so high

Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

I haven't faced a casting couch in the South or Bollywood. But yes, I have faced my share of harassment in both industries. I don't have the guts to name them because they are powerful people - men and women who made sure I felt helpless.

I don't need to show anybody anything other than getting the guy out who is trying to make his money off of me.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

You should never bury someone to forward your own personal interest. And I would never do that to anyone else on the planet.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.

I think R. Kelly is twisted, sick-minded, nasty, perverted - he different. I don't know anybody like R. Kelly.

We all know that abuse, harassment, and worse have long invaded the entertainment ecosystem. That story goes back to the beginning of Hollywood... probably farther.