17 Gil Scott-Heron Quotes for You to Enjoy

Gil Scott-Heron

American Poet

Born: Apr 1, 1949

Died: May 27, 2011

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Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

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. Gil Scott-Heron

Me You Son People Wonderful Made College Be Nice Daughter Become Nice See Seeing More Both Know Educated Been Than Wonderful Thing Graduate Just Graduation Wanted Wanting Happiest Them Nice People Ever Thing

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. Gil Scott-Heron

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home. Gil Scott-Heron

Home Me Broken Before Knew Came Raised

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. Gil Scott-Heron

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about. Gil Scott-Heron

You Yourself People Mirror Other Unless Way Carry See About Faces Only Know Know Yourself Because Get The Only Thing Expressions Thing

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are. Gil Scott-Heron

People Our Kind Accomplishments Show

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive. Gil Scott-Heron

Three Babies Back Later Soldiers Alive Somalia Some About Something Guys Write Disappearing Dead Got How Were Been Up Done Happened Afterlife Them Might Should Novel Street Chance Speculate

Colour is not the issue in America; class is. Gil Scott-Heron

Class Colour Issue America

I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job. Gil Scott-Heron

Work People School Job Made Important Pay Changes Born About Tennessee Town Like Equal Equal Pay Talked Go Were Been Lot Chicago Jackson Where Want Shot Necessary Raised

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words. Gil Scott-Heron

Words About Rather Voice Songs Always Were Than Tone

Well, I grew up on the blues, man! Gil Scott-Heron

Man Well Up Blues Grew

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me. Gil Scott-Heron

Me Welcome Hero Every Out Like Sells Show

If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down. Gil Scott-Heron

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen. Gil Scott-Heron

You Respect People Citizen Long Become Live Every Enough Once Give Were Get Trying Senior Want While

I cannot afford to watch Fox News. Gil Scott-Heron

News Afford Cannot Watch Fox Fox News

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