Creativity Quote by Smokey Robinson

Smokey Robinson frames temptation less as a moral failure than as a scheduled stop on the human itinerary. The line’s power is its calm inevitability: “we’re all” collapses the distance between the saint and the screw-up, while “going to be” treats desire like weather. You don’t negotiate with it; you dress for it. Coming from a Motown architect whose catalog practically mapped the physics of longing, it lands as lived knowledge rather than sermonizing.

The word “victims” is the sly pivot. Robinson could’ve said “we’ll face temptation,” but “victims” admits how often people experience desire as something that happens to them, not something they choose. That’s not an excuse so much as an emotional truth about how seduction works: it feels external, persuasive, timed to your weak spots. Yet the phrase “at several points” also hints at pattern and recurrence. Temptation isn’t a one-time plot twist; it’s episodic, returning whenever you’re lonely, successful, bored, or newly seen.

There’s also a quiet democratic ethos here, very Motown: a shared vulnerability that makes room for empathy without glamorizing bad behavior. Robinson isn’t offering absolution; he’s offering recognition. In a culture that oscillates between purity performance and tabloid condemnation, the line insists on a more useful posture: expect temptation, plan for it, and maybe judge each other less when it arrives right on schedule.