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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

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You have to learn and keep learning.

~Gil Scott-Heron

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Well, I grew up on the blues, man!

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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 1st, 1949

Died: May 27th, 2011

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