"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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Source : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

Al Green

#White Quotes #Giving Quotes #People Quotes

“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”
“So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself”

Source : Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.314, Univ of California Press
“Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations”
“The future started yesterday, and we're already late.”

Source : Song: If You're Out There, Album: Evolver, 2008
“The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.”
“My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.”
“The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.”

Source : Teri Hatcher (2006). “Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life”
“Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.”

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