A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
AL GREENSuicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.
More Al Green Quotes
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So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
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And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.
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No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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Pakistan’s being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show
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Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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I’d never be able to see the shore.
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I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I’ve drunk in a lifetime,
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I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.
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I don’t think I do have a soul.
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I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
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Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.
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At a certain age you’re always uncertain how other people will take you.
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If I could live my life all over I’d do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there’s no way lord, to leave this love behind.
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