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The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

Saul Williams

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
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Newburgh
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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.
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I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.
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Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
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When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.
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I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.
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It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.
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The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.
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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
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What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
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