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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

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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.

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Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.

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Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

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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.

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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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Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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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.

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I was a piano player before I was a poet.

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My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 1st, 1949

Died: May 27th, 2011

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