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You never cared enough to be Black
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I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been d...
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I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly rem...
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I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.
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As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dish...
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Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give w...
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I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you ...
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If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped m...
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I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.
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I cannot afford to watch Fox News.
GIL SCOTT-HERON

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not...
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Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.
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If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm...
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If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. ...
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My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.
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I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these chan...
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Colour is not the issue in America; class is.
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Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest ...
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You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actual...
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Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.
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I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the ...
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Our accomplishments show what kind of people we are.
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Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while....
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You have to learn and keep learning.
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The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that'...
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You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from ...
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I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, lik...
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Because I always feel like running
Not away, because there is no such place
Because if the...
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I was a piano player before I was a poet.
GIL SCOTT-HERON Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others...
HERON CARVIC Thank god for Vegas. Seriously.
A lobotomy wasn’t as effective as a weekend three hours of Re...
CHRISTY HERON Everything went just well for me today. It is my birthday so I have double reason to celebrate today...
HERON GREY Prices paid by residential property investors are still growing, but at a much slower rate than was ...
JOHN HERON Theodore showed that he still has the qualities that made him the class player he has been over the ...
HERON GREY We practically have goalkeeper Loxley Reid, he should have played today against Tivoli but it seems ...
HERON GREY This is not the type of start we expected and it is certainly not what we had in mind.
HERON GREY [Women who have their given name in common with a devastating storm are questioning the hurricane-na...
KATRINA HERON I think we should name hurricanes after vegetables we hate.
KATRINA HERON How about doing away with names?
KATRINA HERON Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel.
KATRINA HERON He is incredibly well networked and he is one of the most well respected chief scientific officers i...
PATRICK HERON Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It's interesting to sample the food...
GIL MARKS People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers....
GIL MARKS In the U.S., Wikia has content sponsorships with top brands, including Blizzard Activision, Sony, Mi...
GIL PENCHINA

Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
GIL STERN

Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open inf...
GIL ATKINSON When I participate in a Series A deal with VCs, entrepreneur-friendly terms go out the window. VCs r...
GIL PENCHINA The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated far...
GIL MARKS To me, that aspect of life that most touches the everyday and celebrations is food.
GIL MARKS It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.
GIL KANE But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.
GIL KANE Crypto today is a libertarian paradise. If you send your money to the wrong place, it's gone. If...
GIL PENCHINA For merchants, it is an amazing opportunity. Compared to Paypal, crypto has no credit card fees, no ...
GIL PENCHINA Mobile was Internet 2.0. It changed everything. Crypto is Internet 3.0.
GIL PENCHINA Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that he...
GIL MARKS While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our str...
GIL AMELIO The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and...
GIL AMELIO The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be a rock star....
GIL AMELIO People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same as...
GIL AMELIO While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our str...
GIL AMELIO People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition, ... Candidly, we made the same ...
GIL AMELIO Steve is different, wants to be different, wants not to compete (with the same type of products) but...
GIL AMELIO (The earnings) represent real progress, ... The key is growth margins went in the right direction, u...
GIL AMELIO Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that wer...
GIL HODGES Throughout history, particularly in the last 2,000 years, Jews have been key in adapting local foods...
GIL MARKS In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance...
GIL MARKS We were two big shots away. If Camacho gets that tip in, who knows.
JOSE GIL Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episo...
GIL GERARD This is much ado about very little.
GIL BRANDT I tend to avoid cakes made with matzo meal instead of flour. Also, most prepared dessert products an...
GIL MARKS I know Walter can block Porter. If he couldn't, we wouldn't be in this game.
GIL HASKELL I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.
GIL GERARD Each Passover, I prepare all sorts of fancy desserts for my family and friends, often experimenting ...
GIL MARKS Every holiday has unique fare and symbolic foods, but none as much as Rosh Hashana.
GIL MARKS Bush invades countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, takes control of their natural resources and bleed...
CANDIDO GIL He just looks good. He looked accurate, threw the ball well, moved well. I think he was the biggest ...
GIL BRANDT It's clear to me now that Ethereum is the new currency of the Internet. It's way ahead of wh...
GIL PENCHINA Ethereum is enabling a new form of financing in ICOs that is like a massive gravitational pull - dra...
GIL PENCHINA The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused f...
GIL GERARD This season the sunglasses have silver trims and they are much smaller, with a mix of patent leather...
GIL DUFOUR There is a biblical injunction to tell your children, but the sages who created the Seder several th...
GIL MARKS Any ICO going forward that doesn't use a 'Ticketmaster-style' queueing engine is clearly...
GIL PENCHINA I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as the...
GIL GERARD The processing and preparation of food can transform a kosher item into a non-kosher item.
GIL MARKS The kosher community tends to follow often several years behind the general societal trends.
GIL MARKS I just got tired. I hadn't started a game in a month. And after throwing long toss, then a bullpen, ...
GIL MECHE I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it...
GIL GERARD This was in the late 1950s, and we held the draft in Philadelphia because that's where the commissio...
GIL BRANDT He was kind of the backbone of our Doomsday defenses. He kind of coached like he played. He was a ha...
GIL BRANDT We tried to experiment with new things like always. This season we tried to make them understated an...
GIL DUFOUR Aveses tenemos que PERDER para APRENDER, y poder CRECER
GUADALUPE GIL Companies spend years acquiring this stuff, and the returns don't justify keeping it, so they unload...
GIL KNIGHT It's not so much the size of the explosion, it's the fragment metal pieces: Nails that are added to ...
GIL KLEIMAN I'm afraid he's in for a crushed ego.
GIL BRANDT Bono said he is involved in things like this (anti-AIDS campaigns) and has sought to learn more abou...
GILBERTO GIL He had 38 points and 20 rebounds against Terra Nova earlier in the year, but, more than anything, I ...
JOSE GIL In my evaluation of the guy, I think he has really good mechanics and good velocity on the ball, whi...
GIL BRANDT It's easier to make new friends than hold on to old ones.
MALOU GIL Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let...
GIL PENCHINA We're over our heads in vernal pools.
GIL PAQUETTE After missing a full month, I'm just not ready to start, and I think I proved that Sunday in Detroit...
GIL MECHE We've added interviews. We've added interviews on tape. We've added workout tapes that are available...
GIL BRANDT Usually they're in the ballpark. Seldom do you have a third-round grade and the guy is picked in the...
GIL BRANDT Every couple is only one righteous decision away from a great marriage.
GIL STIEGLITZ It's a bunch of crap.
GIL HASKELL The first place we went was Vienna, and the first player we tried out was Toni Fritsch. This guy was...
GIL BRANDT The first place we went was Vienna, and the first player we tried out was Toni Fritsch. He had a har...
GIL BRANDT You've got a captive audience of all 32 teams, and that's something you don't have at (an on-campus ...
GIL BRANDT It's the role of a lifetime and she's incredibly good.
GIL BELLOWS To admire the person you love--is the mind talking to love the person who showed nothing to be admir...
MALOU GIL I don't need you to say it back, but what I want is for you to listen everytime I whisper in the air...
MALOU GIL You may be able to convince me of your true lies, but you will never believe that your lies are trut...
MALOU GIL [Gilberto Gil wears a sober suit and tie these days, and his dreadlocks are greying at the temples. ...
GILBERTO GIL The builder has tried really hard to incorporate open space, ... The part of the project that faces ...
GILBERTO GIL In the last 40 years, we can consider Mother Olga as the greatest proponent of the religion of the O...
GILBERTO GIL This isn't just my idea, or Brazil's idea,
GILBERTO GIL who happens to be himself.
GILBERTO GIL If the Resource Center wants a dialogue for reconciliation or to find common ground, this is not the...
GIL STEIN It wasn't so bad for us. The hotel was at the far end of the cove. I didn't see the wave coming. I d...
CHERIE GIL The least these demonstrations will do is call attention to the representatives and decision-makers ...
CINDY GIL Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.
GIL KANE Judaism is not, per se, a religion in the sense most Americans think of. Even if you don't adher...
GIL MARKS The purpose of the march was to show our state and local representatives that the people of Indianap...
CINDY GIL We support this very strongly. We need to do something to avoid being suffocated by the unscrupulous...
GILBERTO GIL [All this leaves the minister with little time for writing songs.] I haven't even thought about it, ...
GILBERTO GIL In the last 40 years, we can consider Mother Olga as the greatest proponent of the religion of the O...
GILBERTO GIL She's a victor, not a victim.
GIL DURAN People would say I really loved Buck Rogers until the Hawk guy came on.
GIL GERARD Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in Am...
GIL MARKS He's an irreverent guy, but he's not impolite, so he can say things in a manner that's effective wit...
GIL CATES Jon knows the difference of being irreverent without being impolite. This is not a political show. I...
GIL CATES I was one of the early folks at eBay, and by 1999, it was completely overrun by consultants from McK...
GIL PENCHINA Historically we do not draft safeties high. So many guys that stay that extra year bear out so much ...
GIL BRANDT Ultimately, we think the VA is probably going to end up buying literally thousands of these,
GIL GUTKNECHT Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper proble...
GIL KANE Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who...
GIL HODGES they're ready to take it wherever it goes.
GIL GARCETTI Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.
GIL COURTEMANCHE I think the biggest thing you could say is when he was with (Green Bay general manager) Ron Wolfe, h...
GIL HASKELL He's developing a finesse game. He's not just a big guy. Yet, if you forget that he can play down lo...
JOSE GIL A Jewish food is one that is almost sanctified, either by its repeated use or use within the holiday...
GIL MARKS They don't stop fighting, though. They are such a good team. We just hoped they would make a mistake...
GIL VEJAR It's kind of been a lingering thing she's had since one of our early tournaments. Come game time, sh...
GIL VEJAR We're not going to burn down an embassy. We feel it's part of our responsibility to inform the publi...
GIL STEIN The relations between Egypt and Nubia were incredibly complex. To the Egyptians, at various times, N...
GIL STEIN The Oriental Institute has played a key role in the exploration of ancient Nubia. As early as 1905, ...
GIL STEIN We are entering the second quarter with a high level of activity and many initiatives in our pipelin...
GIL SHWED It had become a very long and complex process and we thought it was better to withdraw so we could f...
GIL SHWED I am very pleased to welcome Dan to our board of directors. As one of the most regarded executives i...
GIL SHWED Check Point's fourth quarter business provided a strong finish to the year 2005. Our fourth quarter ...
GIL SHWED That was a high in all ways. Andre was tested, he was put on the hot plate. ... We just needed to go...
GIL REYES Coming back from Paris after the French Open this year, that was darkness, because we truly didn't k...
GIL REYES We agreed that I'd help him for three months, and that was 16 years ago.
GIL REYES I can honestly say he's in the best physical shape of his career and has never trained as extensivel...
GIL REYES It's just not in our plans yet to retire.
GIL REYES We will do whatever we need to do to have him ready. I asked him just a little while ago, 'At 35, wh...
GIL REYES He understands that people work hard to buy tickets to see him. He's them with a racket, and they ar...
GIL REYES In one sense, it was an easy decision to make because you have a good racehorse who is about to pull...
GIL REYES Just for those few magic moments today, this place was rockin', this place was rockin'. The magic wa...
GIL REYES He was ready for the battle, but I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we totally ignored the fact th...
GIL REYES To service this contract, we needed $2.5 million to meet payroll expenses, buy the steel, hose reels...
GIL REED If I need help, I call Tom.
GIL REED There is a need for the manufacturing that we do here to be close by. The military work that we do w...
GIL PERRY I think we will be close to 100 employees by the end of the year.
GIL PERRY Our target is low-to-medium volume while Chinese manufacturers are interested in high-volume product...
GIL PERRY The company was started with two people and 600 square feet of leased space at the back of a tool-an...
GIL PERRY When people see him pitch for the first time, they see someone with average stuff, average sinker, a...
GIL PATTERSON You might say he didn't get a chance because his fastball wasn't fast enough, or his curveball wasn'...
GIL PATTERSON The only thing I'd say that's left is that his command of his fastball, slider and split is a hair o...
GIL PATTERSON It would be nice if it happened, but I have no problem working with young pitchers.
GIL PATTERSON With all that, you knew it was going to eventually happen for him.
GIL PATTERSON His arm strength is right where it was before he (got hurt). If you asked me if there was anything I...
GIL PATTERSON If I knew he would pitch like this, I would have started suggesting him the second game of the seaso...
GIL PATTERSON 'He's going to make them rip that uniform off his back, he loves it so much. You wonder why someone ...
GIL PATTERSON It's definitely part of life now.
GIL PAQUETTE The window of opportunity is small.
GIL PAQUETTE I started fast and played well all the way around, except for the last three holes,
GIL MORGAN I thought I had a real chance at a low score after eagle-birdie, but I never did quite get it close ...
GIL MORGAN I started fast. I played well all the way around, except for the last three holes.
GIL MORGAN Overall game was good, but scoring aspect was less than stellar,
GIL MORGAN I think the only negative today - except that I didn't make all the birdies I wanted - is that I let...
GIL MORGAN I think the only negative today ? except that I didn't make all the birdies I wanted ? is that I let...
GIL MORGAN I looked like Robin Hood going through the 18, ... an adventure in itself.
GIL MORGAN For some reason, my game hasn't been very solid all year.
GIL MORGAN I haven't played very well this year. I haven't putted very well. If you don't putt very well you ca...
GIL MORGAN It turned out to be an exciting day. I didn't get off to a great start. Those three straight birdies...
GIL MORGAN My last few starts I just haven't felt real strong on the mound, ... When I wind up in a hitter's co...
GIL MECHE I'm just looking for a fair deal. I don't want to be greedy. At the same time, I don't want to be un...
GIL MECHE Did I wear myself out in the bullpen? I don't know. I don't think so. I never have before. I've neve...
GIL MECHE When I was throwing in the bullpen, I felt great,
GIL MECHE It will give me something positive to take home and rest on.
GIL MECHE They haven't said anything to me. I had a bullpen session Wednesday and if I don't pitch I'll have t...
GIL MECHE the wind was maybe 20 miles an hour, not much. It was much worse to the east.
GIL MECHE I called the folks on Sunday when there was talk the storm would be a big one. I wondered about boar...
GIL MECHE No matter who you're talking to, they all seem to be saying that the sky is falling. That's why we t...
GIL MCGOWAN Which means that waiting lists will get longer in the public system, and this is not just hypothetic...
GIL MCGOWAN Right now what's on the table that's being proposed are changes which are frankly going to change th...
GIL MCGOWAN The ... document reads like a love letter to for-profit health care providers.
GIL MCGOWAN Our hope is that Albertans will send at least one New Democrat to Ottawa and we've identified the on...
GIL MCGOWAN Rather than trying to get a deal, one of their lead negotiators is running the union leader off the ...
GIL MCGOWAN

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

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