Quotes by Gil Scott-Heron
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Well, I grew up on the blues, man!
Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
I found my grandmother dead. It shook me up. I got up to make her breakfast, and I knew it was strange that she wasn't stirring. I went in to wake her, and she was laying in rigor mortis, and I'm done. I called next door, and the kid picked up the phone, and I was so wild, he dropped it.
Colour is not the issue in America; class is.
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
The revolution will not be televised!
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