Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
AL GREENI have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.
More Al Green Quotes
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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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Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.
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I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
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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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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.
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I’m thankful for every moment.
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Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.
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I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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Pakistan’s being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show
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A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
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I 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.
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I’d never be able to see the shore.
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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 I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.
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