“See, if you want to learn about your friends, if you want to learn about your people, people around you, get yourself in some trouble. Get yourself in a situation. Oh man, you start looking around, man. The field get real clear when you in trouble. The field clears out when you in doubt, when you don’t know what to do, when you need help. It get real clear on the playing field then don’t it?
“Oh, but when things are going right, it’s time for a party. We throwing a celebration. We going to do one down here.
“Oh man, there’s plenty of people on the field, but get yourself in a situation. You find out rather quickly that oh no, oh no, everybody ain’t here, and that’s when I started learning.
“I’m telling you. I had to start learning this for real until I finally got it – to stop putting my faith in people and put all of mine in God where it counts the most.
“Now, is that to say that there are people that you can’t trust? No, that’s not what I’m saying. I ain’t saying you can’t trust them. But you can’t dump your faith in them.
“I got it all riding on what he say. I got it all riding on what she say.
“No. No. Huh-uh. No. I hear you saying it, but I’m going to keep my eye on this situation because I hear you saying. But I’m going to take this faith of mine, and instead of putting it in people, I’m going to put it in God where it counts the most.”
