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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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Musician
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Newburgh
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Saul Stacey Williams
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I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.
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American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.
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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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Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
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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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Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
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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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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
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Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.
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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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The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
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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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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
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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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I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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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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Vulnerability is power.
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The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.
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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 think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.
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