I am interested in the weirdest things. I watched "Ray" last night and now I am obsessed with finding out more about Ray Charles' womanizing. He had 12 children with 9 different women. I always do this. I get interested in something and google till my hearts content.
"It's just that my style with women -- my need for women -- doesn't match up with the demands and dilemmas that marriage puts in my way. And besides, to me marriage seems to mean possession and ownership of human beings as though they are television sets. And I really don't want to be owned."Source: Ray Charles, David Ritz, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, page 285.
"Marriage only got started when men wanted a way to fence off their property. So we set up these rules and started marrying gals. The gals felt like they were being protected. To them, it was their sole method of survival. Many times women weren't allowed to learn to read or write. And they were hld back the way blacks had been stifled by whites. That's how men have controlled women for so long. And that's how our attitudes got so crazy and one-sided." Source: Ray Charles, David Ritz, Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, page 238.
I don't necessarily 100% agree but I love him.
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