Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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• You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • God
  • Death