“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.” WayWantMightSongAudience Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.” WantSchedules Author: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.” PeopleWantHas BeensMadeImportantSchoolJobsBornPayEqualShotsTownsRaisedChicagoTennesseeEqual Pay Author: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.” PeopleIfsWantKindSpeakBlackDifferencesForgetKingsShotsClaimsRevolutionaryBlack PeopleLutherNewtonWardrobeJordan Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“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.” WantFirstsWellsActorsConvincedAssVotersMandates Author: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.” PeopleWantGivingTryingLongEnoughCitizensSeniorSenior Citizen Author:Gil Scott-Heron
