A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
AL GREENA collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
AL GREENI started writing when I was about thirteen.
AL GREENAt a certain age you’re always uncertain how other people will take you.
AL GREENThe music is the message, the message is the music.
AL GREENI’m not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
AL GREENI did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.
AL GREENI have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.
AL GREENI’d never be able to see the shore.
AL GREENPakistan’s being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show
AL GREENTeach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
AL GREENAnd 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,
AL GREENIf 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.
AL GREENNo child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
AL GREENSuicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.
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.
AL GREENTheres 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.
AL GREEN