List of Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

I Don't Think People In Power Have The Potential To Do Anything Like That To Me. I Feel As Though As Long As Our Music Is Available, Folks Are Going To Hear It.

You Can Have A Poem Like "b-movie" And Sum Up Thirty Conversations That People Have Had On The Subject, But I Wrote It Down, And Other People Didn't.

I Was One Of The First Three Black Students To Go To An All-white School In Tennessee.

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.

Every Show That Sells Out Is Like A Hero's Welcome For Me.

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.

I Was A Piano Player Before I Was A Poet.

I Think A Whole Lot Of Stuff Gets By People - I Could Name Half A Dozen Groups That Do Songs That Are Openly Supportive Of Experimentation With Drugs, Nobody Ever Said Anything To Them.

I Don't Suspect That In Many Instances The Artists Who Are Dedicated In That Fashion To The Progress Of That Community Are As Well Protected By The Community As Might Be Necessary.

Well The First Thing I Want To Say Is Mandate, My Ass... We've Been Convinced That 26% Of The Registered Voters Is Actually A Mandate. We're All Actors In This I Suppose.

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.

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.