Gil Scott-Heron Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• A good poet feels what his community feels.
  Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Hurt, Community, Body

  "Gil Scott-Heron: More Than a Revolution" by Andrew Nosnitsky, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2012.

• I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Artist, Thinking, Speaks Out

  Source: agitpropspace.org

• We understand what the difference is between what we understand and what the community understands about what we're doing because they have supported us long enough for me to stay out here, while other people who are doing other things have not. A lot of people have trouble pinning down what it is we do and how. But we don't have any trouble with that. As long as that's their problem, it's their problem.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Differences, Long, People

  Source: agitpropspace.org

• I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a clear cut pattern of people wanting to contribute, not only artistically, but in some practical purpose, for the benefits of the community.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Art, Cutting, People

  Source: agitpropspace.org

• Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that when Eldridge Cleaver wrote it down it was interpreted as his, but there's a history of people saying things of that nature and meaning it. And what I do is in that tradition, in that mode.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

  Source: agitpropspace.org

• I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are as well protected by the community as might be necessary.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Fashion, Artist, Community

  Source: agitpropspace.org

• Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Artist, Community, Way

  Source: agitpropspace.org

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