Curtis Mayfield Quotations

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.

I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There's a lot of good information there.

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.

The hunt is on and brother you're the prey.

Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.

Move on up towards your destination