And I’ve also found people that won’t give you a piece of bread if you’re starving to death.
AL GREENA collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
More Al Green Quotes
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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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I’m not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
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Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that’s been extended.
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Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.
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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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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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At a certain age you’re always uncertain how other people will take you.
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I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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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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I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
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A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
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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 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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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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