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Lionel Richie opened up about wanting to march with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement in a recent interview with The Guardian

At the time, his parents talked him out of it because they thought it was "dangerous"

Richie's memoir Truly is out now

Lionel Richie almost marched with Martin Luther King Jr. — but his parents stopped him.

While discussing his newly released memoir Truly with The Guardian in an article published Saturday, Oct. 4, the "Hello" singer recalled growing up in Tuskegee, Ala. during the civil rights movement in the '50s and '60s.

"What I didn't realize was that it made up the core of who I was," Richie, 76, said. "At the time I didn't realize because our parents made a point of keeping a lot of that edge away from us

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