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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
Been
Cleaner
Dishwasher
Gardener
Get
Go
Great
Money
Some
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Colour is not the issue in America; class is.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
America
Class
Colour
Issue
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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
Become
Citizen
Enough
Every
Get
Give
Live
Long
Once
People
Respect
Senior
Trying
Want
Were
While
You
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Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Every
Hero
Like
Me
Out
Sells
Show
Welcome
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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.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
America
Aspects
Bad
Because
Bring
Destructive
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Easy
Everything
Get
Invest
Least
Out
People
Positive
Pursuits
Quickly
Thing
Too
You
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I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Am
Capable
Honestly
How
I Am
Love
Sure
Why
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I cannot afford to watch Fox News.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Afford
Cannot
Fox
Fox News
News
Watch
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I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Being
Criticized
Enjoy
Mind
Personally
Rumor
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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.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Breakfast
Dead
Done
Door
Dropped
Found
Got
Grandmother
He
Her
Kid
Knew
Laying
Make
Me
Next
Next Door
Phone
Picked
Rigor
She
Shook
Stirring
Strange
Up
Wake
Wild
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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.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
About
Afterlife
Alive
Babies
Back
Been
Chance
Dead
Disappearing
Done
Got
Guys
Happened
How
I Can
Later
Might
Novel
Should
Soldiers
Somalia
Some
Something
Speculate
Street
Them
Three
Up
Were
Write
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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.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Audience
Early
Learnt
Might
Rather
Songs
Take
Than
Them
Too
Want
Way
You
Your
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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.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
America
Being
Being Done
Best
Done
Like
Lot
People
Records
Secrets
Some
Studios
Thought
Were
Whole
Winter
Work
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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.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Favorite
Favorite Part
Good
More
Much
Music
Need
Part
Prefer
Studio
Than
Tour
Work
You
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I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Basics
Better
Better Writer
Constantly
Going
Good
Good Story
Made
Myself
Over
Poem
Reminded
Reminding
Story
Students
Teaching
Writer
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I was a piano player before I was a poet.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Before
Piano
Piano Player
Player
Poet
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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.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
About
Been
Born
Changes
Chicago
Equal
Equal Pay
Go
I Was Born
I Was Raised
Important
Jackson
Job
Like
Lot
Made
Necessary
Pay
People
Raised
School
Shot
Talked
Tennessee
Town
Want
Were
Where
Work
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I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Black
First
Go
School
Students
Tennessee
Three
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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.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
About
Always
Apply
Constitution
Everybody
Find
Had
Inside
Meant
Meant To Be
Minority
Outside
Peace
People
Protesting
Questions
Radicals
Really
Trying
Who
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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.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Able
Ask
Been
Help
Person
Position
Put
Somehow
Someone
Supposed
Them
Why
You
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If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Because
Concerned
Die
Far
Fun
Having
No Fun
Program
Running
Worthless
You
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Gil Scott-Heron
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BirthDate
01 April, 1949
DeathDate
27 May, 2011
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