American - Poet | April 1, 1949 - May 27, 2011
Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.
Gil Scott-Heron
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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.
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My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.
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Well, I grew up on the blues, man!
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As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.
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Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.
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Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.
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Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.
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I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.
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I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.
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I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.
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I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
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