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

Saul Williams

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Poet
Rapper
Screenwriter
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Newburgh
New York
Saul Stacey Williams
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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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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 am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking
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What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful it reaches so many people.
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the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
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Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.
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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
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Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
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I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK
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I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.
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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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I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?
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Vulnerability is power.
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Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
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I think that heartbreak is a good thing.
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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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If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.
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When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom.
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I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
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