I was knocking on people's doors. I knocked on a white couple's door, and I told them, I says, 'Excuse me, but I've been born again.' The guy said, 'Hon, call security. There's a little black guy here talking about how he been born again. Call the police.'

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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. 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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Trials can be hard, if you don't know God. by Al Green

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

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The music is the message, the message is the music. 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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Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

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I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. by Al Green

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

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I'm thankful for every moment. by Al Green

I'm thankful for every moment.

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Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction. by Al Green

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

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No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed. by Al Green

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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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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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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I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by th... by Al Green

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

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Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

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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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GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.

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Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I... by Al Green

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

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This will be an opportunity for us to all go on the record: either we will move forward with impeachment or we will vote against it.

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I should not hold off, we should go forward as expeditiously as possible and we should do so because on yesterday we convicted the President... The condemnation was a conviction. Today we have the opportunity to punish, as a result of what we did yesterday, the President suffers no harm, he doesn't have to pay any fine, he's not going to lose his job. But today we have the opportunity to punish.

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[The president] is unfit to defend the ideals that made America great, unfit to defend liberty and justice for all, unfit to defend the American ideals of all people created equal, donald J. Trump is unfit to represent American values of decency and morality.

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To permit the president to self-pardon would place the president... by Al Green

To permit the president to self-pardon would place the president above the law and beyond justice.

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