Gil Scott-Heron Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Gil Scott-Heron:

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.

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

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.

Gil Scott-Heron

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

Gil Scott-Heron

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

Gil Scott-Heron

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.

Gil Scott-Heron

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.

Gil Scott-Heron

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Gil Scott-Heron

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

Gil Scott-Heron

Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.

Gil Scott-Heron

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

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

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

Gil Scott-Heron

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

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

Gil Scott-Heron

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

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

Gil Scott-Heron