The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
We understand what the difference is between what we understand and what the community understands about what we're doing because they have… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
When we were doing the "Angel Dust" thing we got information from the National Institute of Drug Abuse because we knew that… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, like 'Winter… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not.… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
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… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
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… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share
