I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that’ll give you the shirt off their back.
AL GREENIn my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
More Al Green Quotes
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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.
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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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Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I’m one of those people.
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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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Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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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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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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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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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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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
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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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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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