Gil Scott-Heron Quotations

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.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

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

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.

You never cared enough to be Black

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.

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.

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.

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

I think a whole lot of stuff gets by people - I could name half a dozen groups that do songs that are openly supportive of experimentation with drugs, nobody ever said anything to them.