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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. "
Gil Scott-Heron
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned. "
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" Well, I grew up on the blues, man! "
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" I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I was a piano player before I was a poet. "
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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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" You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult. "
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" 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. "
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