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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
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Newburgh
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Saul Stacey Williams
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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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I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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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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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.
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Vulnerability is power.
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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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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK
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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
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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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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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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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the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
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Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party it is also there to elevate consciousness.
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Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, It's my guilty pleasure. I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.
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I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.
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The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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