I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
AL GREEN
A collected poems’ is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
More Al Green Quotes
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I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
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Suicide is not an answer, it’s destruction.
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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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The music is the message, the message is the music.
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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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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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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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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 was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
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At a certain age you’re always uncertain how other people will take you.
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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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Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I’m one of those people.
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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves.
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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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No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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