Ray believed that his style with women and his needs for women didn’t match up with the demands and dilemmas that marriage had put in his way. He also believed from his point of view that all marriage is the possession and ownership of a person as though they were just a material object. Ray simply did not want to feel as though he was owned by another person. Ray states,
“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 hid back the ways the blacks had been stifled by
whites. That’s how men were able to control women for so long. And that’s how
our attitudes got so crazy and one-sided.”
(source
found on page 2 of 2 printed from http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/charlesray.htm).
Some biographers noted that he was indifferent to his wives, lovers, and
children. Rays had a weakness for womanizing that was legendary. Ray had many
affairs throughout his entire life. He also had many children by many different
women.
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