Curtis Mayfield Quotes

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Move on up towards your destination

Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

The hunt is on and brother you're the prey.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.

His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.

If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

....Charles laughingly observed, 'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.