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1. "Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am." ~ Gil Scott Heron
2. "The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that." ~ Gil Scott Heron
3. "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." ~ Gil Scott Heron
4. "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
5. "Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are." ~ Gil Scott Heron
6. "Colour is not the issue in America; class is." ~ Gil Scott Heron
7. "You have to learn and keep learning." ~ Gil Scott Heron
8. "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
9. "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
10. "I was a piano player before I was a poet." ~ Gil Scott Heron
11. "Well, I grew up on the blues, man!" ~ Gil Scott Heron
12. "My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words." ~ Gil Scott Heron
13. "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." ~ Gil Scott Heron
14. "Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me." ~ Gil Scott Heron
15. "I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why." ~ Gil Scott Heron
16. "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
17. "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
18. "All the dreams you show up in are not your own." ~ Gil Scott Heron
19. "Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die." ~ Gil Scott Heron
20. "You never cared enough to be Black" ~ Gil Scott Heron

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