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Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Al Green

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!
AL GREEN

Ask Come Even Make Man More No People Record Right Sign Still
I’d never be able to see the shore.
AL GREEN

Able never See Shore
A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
AL GREEN

Collect Either Survival Testimonial
So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
AL GREEN

Big Gave Happiness Little Love Man Ministry Upstair
Pakistan’s being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show
AL GREEN

Being Country Help Ought Show
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.
AL GREEN

Being Church Dirty Hide Know Laundry Rug Under Year
I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
AL GREEN

Adjust Atheism Desperate Try Unhappy World
And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.
AL GREEN

Bread Death Found Give People Piece Starve
Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I’m one of those people.
AL GREEN

Believe Come Fairness People Rule Some
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,
AL GREEN

Abroad Beer Drunk Float Lifetime Middle Occur
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.
AL GREEN

Earth Fall Forgotten Fossil Instead Intension Meant Recover Rot Time
In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
AL GREEN

Desperate Kid Mind Own Sort
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.
AL GREEN

Black Concert Country Fly Open Prrotude Shirt Suit White Whole
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.
AL GREEN

Autumn Fall Forget Go Graveyard Leave Red Season Time Uneasily Where
I’m thankful for every moment.
AL GREEN

Every Moment Thankful
I started writing when I was about thirteen.
AL GREEN

Start Thirteen Write

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