I’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.
More Al Green Quotes
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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
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I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
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I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
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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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Trials can be hard, if you don’t know God.
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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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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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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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I’m thankful for every moment.
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I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.
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A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
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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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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.
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