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“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”
Source : "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010. 
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“Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.”
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“Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as not their kind of writer.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Be careful in your relations with the government; for they draw no man close to themselves except for their own interests. They appear as friends when it is to their advantage, but they do not stand by a man in his time of stress.”
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“A script is only as good as the director who's making it.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.”
Source : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”
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“I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.”
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“You can't take it with you! Whatever you have there you will have already sent ahead in the way of souls won, victories won, battles won and rewards won for your service here!”
