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Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Orson Scott Card

Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you. — Orson Scott Card

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Francine Scott

Introduction to Kate. - Satisfied she had concluded her notes on the manuscript she had been reading, Kate placed her heel back in its shoe and stood up. She smoothed her skirt and paused to spare a thought for Vincent.
"What is going to happen next?" Kate remembered him pleading.
Claire had said this would happen. — Francine Scott

Scott-heron Quotes By Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Derrickson

We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have. — Scott Derrickson

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

All the dreams you show up in are not your own. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Stand as far away from me as you can
And ask me why
Hang on to your rosary beads
Close your eyes to watch me die

You keep saying kick it, quit it, kick it, quit it
God, but did you ever try
To turn your sick soul inside out
So that the world
So that the world
Can watch you die — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Michael Scott

If you tell people everything you take away their opportunity to learn. — Michael Scott

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Pelley

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched. — Scott Pelley

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Amber Benson

Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all the little details, so that you feel as though you are enmeshed in Coley's brain: thinking her thoughts, feeling her confusion, anger, and, in the end, pain. I just don't think it's possible to read this book and not identify with Coley in some way. — Amber Benson

Scott-heron Quotes By F Scott Fitzgerald

It's not a bad time, it's not one of the worst times of the day. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

You have to learn and keep learning. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them get in the way of what I feel I need to do. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it is corroding anything. Folks have the feeling that oftentimes if you don't talk about something it will go away. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Will Hermes

Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds. — Will Hermes

Scott-heron Quotes By 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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

A good poet feels what his community feels.
Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I was a piano player before I was a poet. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

home is where the hated is — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Words are important for the mind, but the notes are for the soul. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a clear cut pattern of people wanting to contribute, not only artistically, but in some practical purpose, for the benefits of the community. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Will Hermes

Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones. — Will Hermes

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

When we were doing the "Angel Dust" thing we got information from the National Institute of Drug Abuse because we knew that if we went out and said something about angel dust people were going to ask questions about it and we wanted to be sure we had all the information to deal with it when those questions came up. So it's all a question of being as prepared as possible out front, so that if you are going to deal with information it'll be correct. A lot of people won't check it out but some people will. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

The first revolution is when you change your mind — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Kanye West

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also. — Kanye West

Scott-heron Quotes By Will Hermes

When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty. — Will Hermes

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Hahn

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven. — Scott Hahn

Scott-heron Quotes By F Scott Fitzgerald

In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year ... Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Scott-heron Quotes By Walter Scott

What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe,
Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam!
The fever'd patient, from his pallet low,
Through crowded hospitals beholds it stream;
The ruined maiden trembles at its gleam,
The debtor wakes to thought of gyve and jail,
The love-lorn wretch starts from tormenting dream;
The wakeful mother, by the glimmering pale,
Trims her sick infant's couch, and soothes his feeble wail. — Walter Scott

Scott-heron Quotes By F Scott Fitzgerald

Collis, unaware that he was without a wedding garment, heralded his arrival with: I reckon I'm late
the beyed has flown. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Scott-heron Quotes By F Scott Fitzgerald

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Scott-heron Quotes By Michael Scott

Playing video games was all fine and well. When you were killed in a game, you just started again. In this Shadowrealm, though, there were no second chances, and a lot more ways to die. — Michael Scott

Scott-heron Quotes By Michael Scott

Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth. — Michael Scott

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Hastie

Paradise is no whim.
It takes time and trust,
You see. — Scott Hastie

Scott-heron Quotes By Orson Scott Card

Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it. — Orson Scott Card

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Westerfeld

You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed ... to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other.-Zane — Scott Westerfeld

Scott-heron Quotes By F Scott Fitzgerald

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Scott-heron Quotes By 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

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Weiland

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am. — Scott Weiland

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Weiss

One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea - in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product. — Scott Weiss

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Lynch

There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated. — Scott Lynch

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Lynch

If these things are alchemical," said Sofia, "I'd better be the one to have a look at them."
"If it could be dangerous, I'm going as well," said Lorenzo.
"And me," said Conte
"Great! We can all go! It'll be fun!" Locke waved his tied hands at the door. "But hurry it up, for fucks sake. — Scott Lynch

Scott-heron Quotes By R. Scott Bakker

Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things. — R. Scott Bakker

Scott-heron Quotes By F Scott Fitzgerald

The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the treas and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Scott-heron Quotes By F Scott Fitzgerald

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Scott-heron Quotes By Florida Scott-Maxwell

What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Scott-heron Quotes By F Scott Fitzgerald

All the way back she talked haltingly about herself, and Amory's love waned slowly with the moon. At her door they started from habit to kiss good night, but she could not run into his arms, nor were they stretched to meet her as in the week before. For a minute they stood there, hating each other with a bitter sadness. But as Amory had loved himself in Eleanor, so now what he hated was only a mirror. Their poses were strewn about the pale dawn like broken glass. The stars were long gone and there were left only the little sighing gusts of wind and the silences between ... but naked souls are poor things ever, and soon he turned homewards and let new lights come in with the sun. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Scott-heron Quotes By Scott Lynch

[T]he more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And this is it. He wasn't training us for a calm and orderly world where we could pick and choose when we need to be clever. He was training us for a situation that was fucked up on all sides. Well, we're in it, and I say we're equal to it. I don't need to be reminded that we're up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we're the gods-damned sharks."
"Right on," cried Bug. "I knew there was a reason I let you lead this gang! — Scott Lynch

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

The revolution will be no re-run brothers,
The revolution will be live. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

You never cared enough to be Black — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Turn around, turn around, turn around
And you may come full circle
And be new here again — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

A lot of folks are so busy trying to get their groceries together that they don't have time to do research. I have time. Maybe that's the main difference. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Will Hermes

The upshot here is that Gil Scott-Heron is still a warrior, even if the front lines have moved. He's made a record not without hope but which doesn't come with any easy or comforting answers. In that way, the man is clearly still committed to speaking the truth. — Will Hermes

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, like 'Winter in America' and 'Secrets' and when there weren't a whole lot of people in the studios. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

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. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Adam Mansbach

America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron. — Adam Mansbach

Scott-heron Quotes By Gil Scott-Heron

I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent. — Gil Scott-Heron

Scott-heron Quotes By Henry Rollins

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage. — Henry Rollins