Curtis Mayfield Quotes

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Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'

Curtis Mayfield
People get ready
There's a train a-coming
You don't need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming
Don't need no ticket you just thank the Lord.

Curtis Mayfield
Some people think we don't have the right To say it's my country Before they give in they'd rather fuss and fight Than say it's my country I've paid three hundred years or more Of slave-driving sweat and welts on my back This is my country

Curtis Mayfield
From nowhere, through a caravan around the campfire light, A lovely woman in motion with hair as dark as night. Her eyes were like that of a cat in the dark that hypnotized me with love. She was a gypsy woman.

Curtis Mayfield
Superfly, you're gonna make your fortune by and by,
but if you lose don't ask no questions why,
the only game you know is do or die.

Curtis Mayfield
I'm your mama, I'm your daddy
I'm that nigger in the alley.
I'm your doctor, when you need.
Want some coke? Have some weed.

Curtis Mayfield
Hush now child, and don't you cry
Your folks might understand you by and by.

Curtis Mayfield
Why can't we brothers protect one another?
No one's serious and it makes me furious.

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There'll be no more Uncle Tom
At last that blessed day has come and we're a winner.
And everybody knows the truth
We just keep on pushin' like Martin Luther told you to
And I don't mind leavin' here to show the world we have no fear,
'Cause we're movin' on up, movin' on up.
Lord have mercy, we're movin' on up.

Curtis Mayfield