I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.
AL GREENUneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.
More Al Green Quotes
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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
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Trials can be hard, if you don’t know God.
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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
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The music is the message, the message is the music.
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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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What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.
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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 started writing when I was about thirteen.
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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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People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That’s right, records! Man, they don’t even make records no more!
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I’m thankful for every moment.
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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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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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Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I’m one of those people.
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