I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
AL GREENA collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
More Al Green Quotes
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Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that’s been extended.
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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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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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At a certain age you’re always uncertain how other people will take you.
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In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
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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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Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.
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I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
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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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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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A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
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